† ˈfronture 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. |