frontlet
“on?—What makes that,”
KING LEAR, i. 4. 187.
A frontlet was a forehead-cloth, worn
formerly by ladies at night to give smoothness to their foreheads. Here, of course, the word
is equivalent to“angry, scowling look.”
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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