Frontispiece
Frontispiece , noun
[French frontispice, Late Latin frontispicium beginning, front of a church, from Latin frons front + spicere, specere, to look at, view: compare Italian frontispizio. See Front and Spy.]
(Architecture) The part which first meets the eye
(a)
(Architecture) The principal front of a building.
(b)
(Architecture) An ornamental figure or illustration fronting the first page, or titlepage, of a book; formerly, the titlepage itself. [Obsolete or Rare]