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frontispiece

noun as in façade

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This research will be featured as a frontispiece in the upcoming issue of Advanced Materials and has secured both domestic and international patents.

Ms. Donahue admitted being a bit crestfallen to have parted with “Ramona,” a frontispiece illustration that was part of a four-image set Wyeth contributed to a 1939 edition of the Helen Hunt Jackson novel of the same name.

After all, even Martin Droeshout’s frontispiece portrait for the First Folio shows a face that looks, to some eyes, like a mask.

One in her “Frontispiece” series, all made on found book pages, is a grid of color swatches, each tied to a feeling such as “fear” and “pure affection.”

Recast in vivid color, the frontispiece is enlarged to life-size scale, swapping out a generic female face for a specific one.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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