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A.Word.A.Day--frontispiece Pronunciation: WAV or RealAudio frontispiece (FRUN-ti-spees) noun 1. An illustration that faces or immediately precedes the title page of a book, book section, or magazine. 2. Architecture. A facade, especially an ornamental facade. A small ornamental pediment, as on top of a door or window. 3. Archaic. A title page. [Alteration (influenced by piece), of French frontispice, from Late Latin frontispicium, facade of a building : Latin frontis, genitive of frons, forehead, front + Latin specere, to look at.] "Though not an original, the most interesting image of Poe in the Tane collection is the frontispiece to George Woodberry's 1909 `The Life of Edgar Allan Poe.'" Lloyd Rose, Destination: Virginia, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jul 1998. This week's theme: words about books. X-Bonus Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it, anything but live for it. -Charles Caleb Cotton

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