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