/frunt"lit/ , n.
1. Also, frontal . a decorative band, ribbon, or the like, worn across the forehead: The princess wore a richly bejeweled frontlet.
2. the forehead of an animal.
3. Ornith. the forehead when marked by a different color or texture of the plumage.
4. Judaism. the phylactery worn on the forehead.
[ 1425-75; late ME frontlet frontel FRONTAL ]