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overfront
noun 2verb 1
Collocations
4ADJ.
under
VERB + OVERFRONT
set, stands
OVERFRONT + NOUN
foes, jacket
ADV.
boldly, happily
Definitions
noun
1
A false overshirt, jacket, or vest that is attached to the bodice or shirt of a garment.
No 2—Is the Overfront, forming a jacket that opens over the fullness.
The straight overfronts and back of the gown were made in Ondine silk , shot blue and faint yellow with an opalescent effect
2
A decorative wall hanging or dorsal that sits behind the altar and matches the netherfront.
Or when they had four columns to hold up the overfront and riddells, these were often utilised to carry a taper on each.
It seems quite possible that the 'greater sorte' of silk pictures in particular were intended to adorn an altar, either as an overfront, a netherfront or even a reredos.
verb
1
To confront; to oppose; to withstand.
Doubling of the Reere, your battaile will be both lengthened and strengthned , And so by the sudden bringing of these Supplies into the reere, you may not only relieve your owne, but happily overfront your enemy.
When things indifferent shall be set to overfront us under the banners of sin , what wonder if we be routed , and by this art of our adversary fall into the subjection of worst and deadliest offences ?
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No 2—Is the Overfront, forming a jacket that opens over the fullness.
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The straight overfronts and back of the gown were made in Ondine silk , shot blue and faint yellow with an opalescent effect
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A garment of the general character described, comprising an open-front under-body shirt, and an over-front thereon consisting of a lower abdominal body portion having lateral extensions attached to th
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Doubling of the Reere, your battaile will be both lengthened and strengthned , And so by the sudden bringing of these Supplies into the reere, you may not only relieve your owne, but happily overfront
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When things indifferent shall be set to overfront us under the banners of sin , what wonder if we be routed , and by this art of our adversary fall into the subjection of worst and deadliest offences
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The first, a foe no tempest can unbend; The next more supple, but a dangerous friend; This flies the storm he dares not to oppose, That boldly stands, to overfront his foes;
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