Meaning & use

Frontlets

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ornamental bands or coverings worn across the forehead, or the corresponding front part of an animal's head.

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The ceremonial headdress included beaded frontlets that framed the dancers' foreheads.

The horse's frontlets were decorated with small brass ornaments for the parade.

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Plural of "frontlet"; the word appears in older religious and ceremonial texts describing forehead ornaments.

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headbandsbrow bands

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