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How to pronounce frontispiece in English?

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Type Words
Type of facade, frontage, frontal
Type Words
Type of front

Examples of frontispiece

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The report has as its frontispiece a poem posted last year by a Tibetan blogger.
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Glo slipped the clasp and opened the book to an elaborately inked frontispiece.
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Frontispiece of Second of Martin Lister's privately printed version of Apicius.
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The frontispiece of the Vienna Dioscurides shows a set of seven famous physicians.
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Contains black and white plates, including illustration of badges as a frontispiece.
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The Pesavalalu and the frontispiece have been preserved to a great extent.
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Color frontispiece removed, and the red from the end paper maps has changed to black.
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In later printings, Blyden included his photograph as the frontispiece.
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A frontispiece is a decorative illustration facing a book's title page.
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More examples
  • An ornamental facade
  • Front illustration facing the title page of a book
  • Decorated composition emphasising the entrance bay of a Renaissance house.
  • A piece of art placed in the front matter of a book. Very characteristic of nineteenth-century books, and some nonfiction.
  • Front view of a church.