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frontalis

frontalis 1 of the forehead. b (?) bold; cf. frontosus. lumen neacit frontale speculum, / dum mors claudit Amoris oculum J. Howd. Ph. 196.  b frontialis, steorrede[? l. steornede] GlH F 789; ~is vel calidus, steornede Ælf. Gl. 161. 2 (eccl.) for the front (of altar). Cf. frontale 2. c1250 item iij panni ~es de femis [ed. ‘Venice’] Vis. S. Paul. 17; 1295 item tabula ~is et superfrontalis bene depicta Ib. 330; item pannus ~is de baudekyno, et pannus superfrontalis de rubeo cendato cum turrilibus et leopardis deauratis Ib..

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