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frount

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Searchable Lemmata: frons (L), frunt (AF), frount (AF), frount (ME), front (MdE).
Alternate Forms: frontem, frounte.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1(n.) Furnishing; a word with the basic meaning of 'front, front side, brow' etc. In textile and furnishing contexts, an altar frontal (see frontal sense 2). Cf. counterfront.(post 1300 - circa 1550 ?)
1. de frontallis et tuellis. item frons cum tuella de velveto rubio plano. item alia frons cum tuella de crico albo ... item iiij tuella eisdem frontibus Accounts. [DMLBS Invent. Ch. Ch. (131)]
2. j dorsorium, j frontem, j frontellum ... unum pannum aureum rubeum ragomas Accounts. [DMLBS Pat (364 m. 1) 1401]
3. [47] ... An auterchoith ... þe frount of gold blac and blew ... [48] ... Item, a paire of blankettes overwered; item, an old blew materas of þe leste assise ... Þe holme and þe armes of John Cheyne squier stondynge in a 3ok with iij corteyns Accounts, Legal. [MED Reg.Chichele in Cant.Yk.S.42 ((Lamb 69) 47-48) 1415]
4. [92] ... j Surcote de Scarleta pro parliamento furrato cum byce. ... [93] ... Vnum integrum vestimentum de blodio damask, orphreyed de motteley veluet ... cum frontell et contrafrontell et parura operata ad modum vnius Burse ... Vnum vestimentum de bustian albo ... j frontell et contrafrontell panni linei styneth [?read: steynet] ... .iij amittas cum parura de albo Tartaryn steyneth [?read: steynet] cum trefoill ... [98] ... j frounte & ij curtyns ... pro j altare ... j frontell cum j frount et j reredos ... j Celur cum j reredos ... j reredos cum j frount et ij curtyns de Tartarin viridi radiato ... v capis de panno adaurato de Lukes albo; j panno adaurato de Lukes veteri ... ij vlnis di. panni adaurati de Lukes blodio ... j panno adaurato de Lukes partito rubeo et viridi ... ij dalmatikes de panno ad aurum de Lukes albo ... ij lynynges de Tartarin ... j de colore viridi et alter de colore nigro ... [99] ... Item vn daggeswayn, pris ij s. Accounts. [MED Invent.Agincourt in Archaeol.70 (92-99) 1415]
5. Auterclothes [comprising a] frount, countrefrount, [and] curteyns Legal, Wills. [MED Will Court Hust. ((Gldh) 2.478) 1434]
6. [226] ... (PROME item 500) Item, .ij. peces d'argent d'un sort, chacez de roses et de batons, pois' ensemble .x. unces, pris l'unce .ij. s .vi. d.; .xxv. s. ... [227] ... (PROME item 552) Item, .i. autre crois d'argent dorrez, fait des batons ragges, pois' .vij. unces .iij. quarters, pris del unce .ij. s. .viij. d.; .xx. s. .viij. d. ... (Item 556) En primes, ung Vestiment entier de noier ragamas d'or, contenant I chesible, II tunicles, III copes, III amites, III aubes, II stoles, II fanons, I frount, I counterfrount, ovec II towailles ... (item 560) Item, II Luivres [PROME linvres] des Hoppelandes de rouge syndon a tripe, pris ... III s. IIII d. (item 561) Item, .i. autre hapeland de noier furre de grey, pris .xx. s. (item 562) Item, .i. autre hopeland de noier de lir' furre de grey, pris .xx. s. (item 563) Item, .i. surcote overt ovec .i. mantelle, et .i. cote hardy d'escarlet; [8] pris de toutz .xxvi. s. .viij. d. (item 564) Item, ung manche de velviet cremosy, pris .vi. s. .viij. d. (item 565) Item, .i. peire de bedes de geet, pris .iij. s. .iiij. d. ... Legal. Citations from AND2 compared against and extended with PROME [Parliamentary Records of Medieval England, accessed 28 June 2010, <http://sd-editions.com/PROME/home.html>]. W. M. Ormrod (ed.), 'Henry VI: Parliament of October 1423, Text and Translation', in The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, ed. C. Given-Wilson et al., items 500-565, Internet version, at http://www.sd-editions.com/PROME, accessed on 2 June 2010. Scholarly Digital Editions, Leicester: 2005. [AND RotParl1 (iv 226-227) 1423]
7. [8] ... je devise ... une paire de vestimentz de satyn bleu et noir palee et ribane d’ore entre les palez ... c’est assavoir chesible, aube ... une chesible, ij tonicles, iij aubes ... fruntel et ij napes pur icelle ... une mantelle de perce blew furré de gray ... Les iij paires vestimentz ferialez, l’un bleu, l’autre blanc et la tierce drape esteignez ... ij touaillez frengés pur les ditz suytz de vermaille et bleu ... une frounte de satin rouge frengez ... [11] ... un hopeland linez ové bokeramnoir Accounts. (citations from individual page of text may not appear in original order) [AND Reg Chich (ii 8-11) 1414/1443]
AF, L, ME, MdE.
Sex: N/A    Use: Ecclesiastical    Ceremonial: Yes
Body Parts: N/A.

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, Old French front (AF frount, frunt, etc.), from L frontem, frons, originally 'the forehead', 'brow', 'foremost part' (of something).
WF: Borrowed into the British Isles
Etym Cog: frontal (MdE), frontlet (MdE).
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