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fron·ton  (frntn, frn-tn)
n.
An arena for jai alai.

[Spanish frontón, wall, fronton, augmentative of frente, forehead, face, from Old Spanish fruente, from Latin frns, front-.]

fronton [ˈfrɒntɒn frɒnˈtɒn]
n
(Individual Sports, other than specified) a wall against which pelota or jai alai is played
[from Spanish frontón, from frente forehead, from Latin frōns]


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the owner of Miami Jai Alai, plans to modify a section of the 180,000-square-foot fronton to install an undetermined number of slot machines.
There were also some clear successes - including fine reds from Madiran, Saint-Mont and, to some extent, Fronton, and some good inexpensive dry whites from the Ctes de Gascogne, but only a few can make it through to the wine fair.
Currently, the best-known work of the genre in Hungarian is again by a gentile, Alaine Polcz's 1991 Asszony a fronton.
 
 
 
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