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frontispiece
noun
1 frontispiece
An ornamental facade.
Roget 593:
booklet;
writing,
work,
volume,
tome,
opuscule†;
tract,
tractate†;
livret†;
brochure,
libretto,
handbook,
codex,
manual,
pamphlet,
enchiridion†,
circular,
publication;
chap book.
part,
issue,
number livraison [Fr.];
album,
portfolio;
periodical,
serial,
magazine,
ephemeris,
annual,
journal.
paper,
bill,
sheet,
broadsheet†;
leaf,
leaflet;
fly leaf,
page;
quire,
ream.
[subdivisions of a book]
chapter,
section,
head,
article,
paragraph,
passage,
clause;
endpapers,
frontispiece;
cover,
binding.
folio,
quarto,
octavo;
duodecimo†,
sextodecimo†,
octodecimo†.
encyclopedia;
encompilation†.
[collection of books]
library,
bibliotheca†.
press
etc.
(publication)
531.
[complete description]
definitive work,
treatise,
comprehensive treatise
(dissertation)
595.
[person who writes a book]
writer,
author,
litterateur [Fr.],
essayist,
journalism;
pen,
scribbler,
the scribbling race;
literary hack,
Grub-street writer;
writer for the press,
gentleman of the press,
representative of the press;
adjective jerker†,
diaskeaust†,
ghost,
hack writer,
ink slinger;
publicist;
reporter,
penny a liner;
editor,
subeditor†;
playwright
etc.
599;
poet
etc.
597.
bookseller,
publisher;
bibliopole†,
bibliopolist†;
librarian;
bookstore,
bookshop,
bookseller's shop.
knowledge of books,
bibliography;
book learning
etc.
(knowledge)
490.
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Roget 64:
precursor,
antecedent,
precedent,
predecessor;
forerunner,
vancourier†,
avant-coureur [Fr.],
pioneer,
prodrome†,
prodromos†,
prodromus†,
outrider;
leader,
bellwether;
herald,
harbinger;
foreboding;
dawn;
avant-courier,
avant-garde,
bellmare†,
forelooper†,
foreloper†,
stalking-horse,
voorlooper [Afrik.],
voortrekker [Afrik.].
prelude,
preamble,
preface,
prologue,
foreword,
avant-propos [Fr.],
protasis†,
proemium†,
prolusion†,
proem,
prolepsis [Gramm.],
prolegomena,
prefix,
introduction;
heading,
frontispiece,
groundwork;
preparation
etc.
673;
overture,
exordium [Lat.],
symphony;
premises.
prefigurement
etc.
511;
omen
etc.
512.
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Roget 234:
front;
fore,
forepart;
foreground;
face,
disk,
disc,
frontage;
facade,
proscenium,
facia [Lat.],
frontispiece;
anteriority†;
obverse
(of a medal or coin).
fore rank,
front rank;
van,
vanguard;
advanced guard;
outpost;
first line;
scout.
brow,
forehead,
visage,
physiognomy,
phiz†,
countenance,
mut [Slang];
rostrum,
beak,
bow,
stem,
prow,
prore†,
jib.
pioneer
etc.
(precursor)
64;
metoposcopy†.
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2 frontispiece
Front illustration facing the title page of a book.
Dutch: frontispice, frontispies, titelplaat, titelprent
Moby thesaurus: anteriority, avant-propos, bold front, brave face, brave front, breakthrough, display, exordium, facade, face, facet, facia, fore, forefront, foreground, forehand, foreland, forepart, forequarter, foreside, foreword, front, front elevation, front man, front matter, front page, front view, frontage, frontal, frontier, head, heading, innovation, introduction, lap, leap, obverse, overture, postulate, preamble, preface, prefix, prefixture, preliminary, prelude, premise, presupposition, priority, proem, prolegomena, prolegomenon, prolepsis, prologue, proscenium, protasis, verse, voluntary, window dressing ... show more.
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