亚洲网紅露点

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frontispiece

[ fruhn-tis-pees, fron- ]

noun

  1. an illustrated leaf preceding the title page of a book.
  2. Architecture. a fa莽ade, or a part or feature of a fa莽ade, often highlighted by ornamentation.


frontispiece

/ 藞蹿谤蕦苍迟瑟蝉藢辫颈藧蝉 /

noun

  1. an illustration facing the title page of a book
  2. the principal fa莽ade of a building; front
  3. a pediment, esp an ornamented one, over a door, window, etc
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of frontispiece1

1590鈥1600; alteration (conformed to piece ) of earlier frontispice < French < Medieval Latin frontispicium, equivalent to Latin fronti- front + -spicium (combining form representing specere to look at)
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of frontispiece1

C16 frontispice , from French, from Late Latin frontispicium fa莽ade, inspection of the forehead, from Latin 蹿谤艒苍蝉 forehead + specere to look at; influenced by piece
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The picture is well known in France as the frontispiece of Rimbaud鈥檚 鈥淧o茅sies Compl猫tes,鈥 which was published posthumously in 1895.

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This research will be featured as a frontispiece in the upcoming issue of Advanced Materials and has secured both domestic and international patents.

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After all, even Martin Droeshout鈥檚 frontispiece portrait for the First Folio shows a face that looks, to some eyes, like a mask.

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The frontispieces are prints augmented with gouache and colored pencil, which is characteristic of Wolfe鈥檚 eclectic approach.

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Recast in vivid color, the frontispiece is enlarged to life-size scale, swapping out a generic female face for a specific one.

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