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# frontispiece

noun (frontispieces)

«frontispiece» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

A picture facing the title page at the front of an old book. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frontispiece/#m1)

### In the lessons

in old books, the picture that comes just before the title page; in stories a writer describes the one in a book

### Examples

- The frontispiece is a picture of a ship. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frontispiece/#x1)
- The artist drew the frontispiece for the book. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frontispiece/#x2)
- The frontispiece shows the Sea-Maiden. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frontispiece/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «frontispiece» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frontispiece/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«frontispiece» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/frontispiece.html) on Mova free.