subs. (pugilists’).—The face. For synonyms, see DIAL.
1818. P. EGAN, Boxiana, I., p. 221. Tyne put in right and left upon the Jew’s FRONTISPIECE two such severe blows, that Crabbe’s countenance underwent a trifling change.
1845. BUCKSTONE, The Green Bushes, i. 1. It’s a marcy my switch didn’t come in contract with your illigant FRONTISPIECE.
1860. Chambers’s Journal, XIII., p. 368. His forehead is his FRONTISPIECE.
1864. A. TROLLOPE, The Small House at Arlington (1884), vol. ii., ch. V., p. 47. He said that he had had an accident—or rather, a row—and that he had come out of it with considerable damage to his FRONTISPIECE.
1891. Sporting Life, 28 March. It must be confessed that the ludicrous was attained when Griffiths subsequently appeared with a short black pipe in his distorted and battered FRONTISPIECE.
