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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1450-1585

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Frontale, -all, Frontell, n. Also: fruntale, frontaill, -oll, frwntall, frountell, fruntell; frontar. [ME. fruntall, frontel (1381), OF. frontel, late L. frontale.] A frontal for an altar or (in later use) of a bed.(a) c 1450 Misc. Maitl. C. III. 198.
j pendikill befor the alter of quhyt sylk champit with ane frontall of the samyn
1498 Halyb. 159.
A frontall of reid say brodrit
1530 Balmerino and L. Chart. ii. 32.
Ane frwntall to ane alter of burd
1531 Bell. Boece II. 394.
The goldin and silkin claithis … war distribute amang the abbays of Scotland to be vestamentis and frontallis to thair altaris
1561 Invent. Q. Mary cxcii.
Ane frontoll of clayth of gold
(b) 1503 Reg. Soltre 158.
For ane frontale and ane pend befoir the hie altar
1506 Treasurer's Accounts III. 64.
The frontaill of the hye altar
1529 Antiq. Aberd. & B. IV. 230.
Ane antepend befor the altar … with towellis, frontale, … and vthir furnissing
1539 Inv. Wardrobe 47.
Thre curtingis … with ane frontale frenȝeit with gold and silk
1542 Ib. 98.
The nether frontale of the samyne bed
(c) 1506 Glasgow Dioc. Reg. II. 152.
Efter the forme of the frontell of the siloyris of the hie altare in Glasgu
1516 Inv. Wardrobe 28.
A frountell of an alter of clothe of gold
1542 Acts & Dreceets MS. I. 140.
In his oratour … ane fruntell of black velvot
1559 Edinb. B. Rec. III. 43.
Tua frontellis, ane of blak welwot and ane other of reid welwote
1562 6th Rep. Hist. MSS. App. 647/2.
Thre gren courtingis of sae with frontellis of gren tafiteis
1585 Protocol Book of W. Cumming 75.
Ane standan bed furnest with … courtingis of brogat vorsat … and ane frontell
(d) 1538 Treasurer's Accounts VII. 43.
The chesable, frontar, pendikle of the Kingis chapel

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