Sentence examples for frontlet from inspiring English sources
A Klawock city official, a Haida who took up carving and "Indian dancing" after he gave up drinking, sat working on a small frontlet, which he planned to trade for ceremonial leggings.
Mark Traynor in Dublin: White horses with white frontlet plumes came round the Rotunda corner, galloping.
Another display sets out symbols of respect, like an intricate Tlingit frontlet headdress (circa 1870) from British Columbia, made of wood, hide and ermine skins and adorned with the image of a beaver, an ancestral crest animal, inlaid with abalone shell.
Phylacteries are worn in obedience to the commandment found in Deuteronomy, chapter 11, verse 18, and Exodus, chapter 13, verses 9 and 16: "And you shall bind them [i.e., the words of God] as a sign upon your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes".
The foreheads and breasts of officers' horses and those of men in the front rank were protected with frontlets and poitrels of iron.
The name phylacteries is sometimes thought to point to a prophylactic origin, but the term is actually a translation of the Hebrew word for "frontlets" (ṭoṭafot).
