1845. Buckstone, Green Bushes, i., 1. It’s a marcy my switch didn’t come in contract with your iligant frontispiece.
1860. Chambers’ Journal XIII., p. 368. His forehead is his frontispiece.
1864. A. Trollope, Sm. Ho. at Allington (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 Mar. It must be confessed that the ludicrous was attained when Griffiths subsequently appeared with a short black pipe in his distorted and battered frontispiece.
Front-windows, subs. (common).—1. The eyes; also the face.
2. In sing. (venery).—The female pudendum. Cf., front-attic; and for synonyms, see Monosyllable.
Frost, subs. (common).—A complete failure. Cf., Fr., un four noir. Also un temps noir = a blank interval; a prolonged silence (as when an actor’s memory fails him).
1885. Saturday Review, 15 Aug., p. 218. He is an absolute and perfect frost.
1885. Bell’s Life, 3 Jan., p. 3, col. 6. We regret we cannot write favorably concerning this matter, the affair being almost as big a frost athletically as it was financially.
1889. Star, 17 Jan. The pantomime was a dead frost.