frontlet

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: front=let

CIDE DICTIONARY

frontlet, n. [OF. frontelet brow band, dim. of frontel, frontal. See Frontal, n.].

•  A frontal or brow band; a fillet or band worn on the forehead.  [1913 Webster]

  "They shall be as frontlets between thine eyes."  [1913 Webster]
•  A frown (likened to a frontlet).  [1913 Webster]

  "What makes that frontlet on? Methinks you are too much of late i' the frown."  [1913 Webster]
•  The margin of the head, behind the bill of birds, often bearing rigid bristles.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

frontlet, n.
1 a piece of cloth hanging over the upper part of an altar frontal.
2 a band worn on the forehead.
3 a phylactery.
4 an animal's forehead.

Etymology

OF frontelet (as FRONTAL(2))