FRONTISPIECE (through the

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• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French, from Med.

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• LAT

Lat. frontispicium, a front view, frons, frontis, forehead or front, and specere, to look at; the

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• ENGLISH

English spelling is a mistaken

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• ADAPTATION (from Lat. adaptare. to fit to)

adaptation to " piece ")  , an architectural term for the principal front of a building, but more generally applied to a richly decorated entrance doorway, if projecting slightly only in front of the main wall, otherwise portal or porch would be a more correct term . The word, however, is more used for a decorative design or the representation of some subject connected with the sub-stance of a book and placed as the first illustrated page . A design at the end of the chapter of a book is called a tail-piece .