Definition of Frontoon

1. a pediment [n -S] - See also: pediment

Lexicographical Neighbors of Frontoon

frontolacrimal suture
frontolyses
frontolysis
frontolyze
frontomalar
frontomaxillary
frontomaxillary suture
fronton
frontonasal
frontonasal duct
frontonasal primordium
frontonasal process
frontonasal prominence
frontonasal suture
frontons
frontoon (current term)
frontoons
frontoparietal
frontoposterior position
frontosphenoidal process
frontostriatal
frontotemporal
frontotemporal tract
frontotemporale
frontotemporally
frontotransverse position
frontozygomatic
frontozygomatic suture
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Literary usage of Frontoon

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1828)
"... by declaring them the ornament of the frontoon of a temple, and placing them beside each other in a row ; the principal figure in the middle, ..."

2. A Memoir of the Life and Writings of the Late William Taylor of Norwich by Robert Southey, Walter Scott (1843)
"... —every frontoon and arch regularly framed with them,—the pyramidal roofs of the pavilions glittering to the very apex,—in every niche and arcade a ..."

3. The Ecclesiologist by Ecclesiological Society (1864)
"Over each arch is a large handsome light of six bays with a marigold in the angle of the frontoon, and all filled with fine painted glass. ..."

4. Geological Report and Map of the San Juan Del Rio Ranche, in Sonora, Mexico by Cummings Cherry, Cincinnati & Sonora Mining Association (1866)
"They sank a vertical shaft 210 feet, and supposing they were below the old workings, ran a frontoon 40 feet towards the vein and into the old workings, ..."

5. A Journey to Edenborough in Scotland by Joseph Taylor (1903)
"... with Four Columns of the same order supporting a frontoon with his Graces Arms, and on the South Front, are twelve windows, the Sashes also guilt on the ..."

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