n. 1. An ornament or band worn on the forehead as a phylactery. 2. The forehead of an animal. 3. The forehead of a bird when of a different color or texture of plumage. 4. An ornamental border for a frontal. [Middle English, from Old French frontelet, diminutive of frontel, ornament worn on the forehead; see FRONTAL2.] |
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