Obs. Also 5 frunture. [altered form (after words with suffix -URE) of FRONTIER.] = FRONTIER.
1417. Ld. Furnyval, in Ellis, Orig. Lett., Ser. II. I. 58. A bridge … sett in the fronture of the borders of the Irish enimies.
c. 1430. Lydg., Min. Poems (Percy), 18. And last was wryten in the ffrontures ‘I schalle ffullefille him withe joy’ [etc.].
1452. Paston Lett., I. 237. Charlys Nowel, Otywell Nowell, Robert Ledeham … kepe a frunture and a forslet at the hows of the seid Robert Ledeham, and issu ought at her pleser.
1611. Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., VI. xvii. § 7. 97. Placed in the fronture of this Chapter.
