English to French Meaning of frontispiece - frontispice

Frontispiece :

frontispice

noun

couverture, frontispice, couvercle, de face, façade

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Definitions of frontispiece in English

Noun(1) an ornamental facade(2) front illustration facing the title page of a book

Examples of frontispiece in English

(1) The trophies and insets painted in the vertical margins of the Soane frontispiece and title page may refer to those duties.(2) Inside I found a frontispiece of the sort once sees in books of fairy tales - it depicts a boy and his dog at the gates of something like a castle.(3) Passerotti's Self-Portrait with Skeleton, Ecorche and Nudes, early 1580s (Warsaw University Library), is presumed to have been drawn as the frontispiece for his book.(4) As a child, Henriette posed for her father's illustration for the frontispiece .(5) As a frontispiece , the book reproduces a plate by Albrecht Durer from his 1498 Apocalypse of Saint John, in which the picture of a book prefigures millennial revelations.(6) The first was a low, flat building with arched windows and a central balcony and square frontispiece .(7) It was a low, flat building with arched windows and a central balcony and square frontispiece , with the post office occupying one wing.(8) The images in the 15 black-and-white photographs, measuring roughly 24 x 20 inches in the original, are difficult to make out in their reproduction as the book's frontispiece .(9) Indeed, a photograph of Pinka posing as Flush in a Victorian interior serves as the book's frontispiece .(10) The first illustration was a colour frontispiece entitled ├ö├ç├┐Chemical Industry, Upheld by Pure Science, Sustains the Production of Man's Necessities.├ö├ç├û(11) It came with a frontispiece showing damage caused by fascist artillery to the Goya Foundation.(12) The frontispiece is a photograph of the oldest woman in the world and her son, Bulgarian peasants.(13) Moreover, the identification of the now celebrated and no longer pseudonymous writer with his text was emphasized by an engraved frontispiece which reproduced the head and shoulders of Daniel Maclise's recent portrait of him.(14) I have pasted over the frontispiece a drawing of Yeats by the Senior Yeats which this edition does not reprint from The Trembling of the Veil.(15) Images are from the frontispiece to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein.(16) Edwards's painting appeared twice, showcased as frontispiece and chapter illustration.

Related Phrases of frontispiece

(1) frontispiece ::

frontispice

(2) piece ::

pièce

Related Phrases of frontispiece

(1) frontispiece ::

frontispice

(2) piece ::

pièce

Synonyms

1. cover ::

couverture

2. frontispiece ::

frontispice

3. lid ::

couvercle

4. front ::

de face

5. frontage ::

façade

Different Forms

frontispiece, frontispieces

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