frontlet

UK: /ˈfrʌntlɪt/ US: (frunt′lit)

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front•let  (frunt′lit), n. 

1. Also, frontal. a decorative band, ribbon, or the like, worn across the forehead:
   The princess wore a richly bejeweled frontlet.
2. the forehead of an animal.
3. [Ornith.] the forehead when marked by a different color or texture of the plumage.
4. [Judaism.] the phylactery worn on the forehead.

• Old French, diminutive of frontel frontal
• late Middle English frontlet 1425–75

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frontlet / ˈfrʌntlɪt/ noun

1. Also called: frontal a small decorative loop worn on a woman's forehead, projecting from under her headdress, in the 15th century

Etymology: 15th Century: from Old French frontelet a little frontal