Frontispiece
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Frontispiece may refer to:
- Book frontispiece, a decorative illustration facing a book's title page
- A book frontispiece is an elaborate decorative illustration that appears facing the title page of the book. Use of the word to indicate the title page is now obsolete (Oxford English Dictionary).
- Frontispiece (architecture), the combination of elements that frame and decorate the main, or front, door to a building
- In architecture, a frontispiece constitutes the elements that frame and decorate the main, or front, door to a building; especially when the main entrance is the chief face of the building, rather than being kept behind columns or a portico.
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