frons

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For the word comes from the Latin frons, "the forehead."

From Stories That Words Tell Us by O'Neill, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Speakman)

Hence, also, when we meet with the expression, gemina frons, we must understand that the volume had a ticket at each end.

From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis)

Hence the end of the roll, or volume, was called frons, a term of frequent recurrence in Ovid and Martial, and not always rightly understood.

From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis)

Redivivum aspice; Vide frons quam sit amœna, Quinque plagas inspice; Fulgent, sic ut margaritæ, 533 / 473 Ornamenta novæ vitæ.

From The Story of the Hymns and Tunes by Brown, Theron

Pasquin laughed:— 'Angulus est Petri, Pauli frons tota.

From Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 2 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)