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frontispiece
1. the principal fa?ade of a building; front
2. a pediment, esp an ornamented one, over a door, window, etc.


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I took `Napoleon Announcing the Divorce to Josephine' for my frontispiece.
His frontispiece, boats attacking Sperm Whales, though no doubt calculated to excite the civil scepticism of some parlor men, is admirably correct and life-like in its general effect.
The frontispiece was a photograph of Captain Jim himself, standing at the door of the lighthouse, looking across the gulf.
 
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