Crossword-Solution: FRONTON
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Fronton | n. | Same as Frontal, 2. |
We have 9 clues for the answer “FRONTON”
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| Jai alai venue | 1 answer |
| Place to play jai alai | 1 answer |
| Sports facility, "pseudo-antonym" of 1 Across | 1 answer |
| Where to watch jai alai | 1 answer |
| Pediment | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EECZAM
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with FRONTON (5)
Having done this, and being able to give human expression and action to the stone, all the rest--the rib, the niche, the foil, the shaft--were mere toys to his hand and accessories to his conception: and if once you also gain the gift of doing this, if once you can carve one fronton such as you have here, I tell you, you would be able--so far as it depended on your invention--to scatter cathedrals over England as fast as clouds rise from its streams after summer rain.
Nordo - north; kirli - to whisk, to twirl; konscii - to be conscious; opinii - to be of opinion; torfo - peat; petoli - to play, tease; furiozi - to rage; gxemi - to groan; kraki - to crack, crackle; kaduka - decayed, infirm; skui - to shake; vane - in vain; frontono - gable, fronton; rusti - to rust; hoko - hook; klaki - to clack, clap.
Its broad and imposing façade, encrusted with ornament, chiefly in the florid Gothic of the fifteenth century, but disfigured by a hideous eighteenth-century _fronton_ that crowns the gable, stands at the top of a broad and rather steep _place_, of which some of the houses are of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
The names of his two sons, Caracalla and Geta, were inscribed on the fronton of the arch; but when Caracalla had assassinated Geta he caused his name to be erased, and some traces of the cancelled letters are still to be seen.
The era of the Renaissance brought with it in France no poets to sing of Joan of Arc, and we only find--besides the mystery play of the _Siege of Orleans_--one literary work relating to her at this period; that is a five-act tragedy written by a Jesuit priest named Fronton du Duc, a gloomy piece, which was acted in 1580 at Pont-à-Mousson.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1997–2011).