frontlet

plural frontlets

1. obsoleteThe forehead.
2. The forehead of an animal, especially of a deer or stag (including the antlers).
3. An ornament worn on the forehead.
4. A bandage or medical preparation worn around the head.

   Frontlets are known to every goodwife: rose-water and vinegar, with a little woman's milk, and nutmegs grated upon a rose-cake applied to both temples.

   1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 5, member 1, subsection vi