Pronounced: LIH-muh-n’l, adj
Notes: I should have worked out the definition of this word
Yesterday’s word
The word frontispiece is
- an illustration facing or preceding the title page of a book
- a facade, especially an ornamental facade, of a building
- an ornamental pediment over a door or window
First usage
Our word came into English in the late 1500s
Background / Comments
This word is another one that was created in error; it was a corruption of the French word frontispice because it looked like “piece”. The word comes from the Latin word frontispicium (facade), which is made of front- (front) and specere (to look).
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