frontispiece

plural frontispieces · alternative frontipiece · alternative frontispice

1. mediaAn illustration that is on the page before the title page of a book, a section of one, or a magazine.

   The viaduct was illustrated as a frontispiece to THE RAILWAY MAGAZINE of September, 1938. [In this case, the frontispiece is between the title page and the first article.]

   1939 September, D. S. Barrie, “The Railways of South Wales”, in Railway Magazine, page 163

2. archaicmediaThe title page of a book.
3. architectureA façade, especially an ornamental one.
4. architectureA small ornamental pediment, especially at the top of a window or door.
5. archaichumorousslangA person's face.

   The personal appearance of Cebry is worthy of record. He carries on his frontispiece the indubitable marks of a money-dealer. His is one of those peculiar faces […]

   1844, George Pope Morris, Nathaniel Parker Willis, The New Mirror, volume 3, page 99

present singular third person frontispieces · participle present frontispiecing · participle past frontispieced · past frontispieced · alternative frontipiece · alternative frontispice

1. raretransitiveTo supply with a frontispiece.

   The novel was frontispieced with a portrait of the author.