ppl. a. [f. FRONT sb. or v. + -ED.] Furnished with or having a front; formed with a front. With qualifying adverb: Having a front or countenance with a specified expression.

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1615.  J. Stephens, Ess. & Char., Impudent Censurer (1857), 133. Hee is so fronted with striving to discountenance knowlege, by the contempt of it, as you would think him borne to insolence.

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1667.  Milton, P. L., II. 532. Part curb thir fierie Steeds, or shun the Goal With rapid wheels, or fronted Brigads form.

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1873.  A. Dobson, Vignettes in Rhyme, Sundial, xii.

        Blue-eyed, *frank-faced, with clear and open brow,
  Scar-seamed a little, as the women love;
So kindly fronted that you marvelled how
  The frequent sword-hilt had so frayed his glove.

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