frontispiece
/ˈfrʌntɪspiːs/noun
1
- an illustration facing the title page of a book（书籍的）卷首插图, 扉画。
2
- Architecture the principal face of a building【建筑】（建筑物的）主立面。
2.1
- a decorated entrance有装饰的入口。
2.2
- a pediment over a door or window（门、窗上部的）三角顶饰。
词源
late 16th cent. (in sense 2)： from French frontispice or late Latin frontispicium 'facade', from Latin frons， front- 'front' + specere 'to look'. The change in the ending （early in the word's history） was by association with PIECE.