دِيبَاجَةٌ

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دِيبَاجَةٌ [A proem, an introduction, or a preface, to a poem or a book; and especially one that is embellished, or composed in an ornate style]. لِهٰذِهِ القَصِيدَةِ دِيبَاجَةٌ حَسَنَةٌ [To this ode is a beautiful proem] is said of a قصيدة when it is embellished (مُحَبَّرَة) [in its commencement]. And one says, مَا أَحْسَنَ دِيبَاجَاتِ البُحْتُرِىِّ [How beautiful are the proems of l-Boh- turee!].
2 دِيبَاجَةُ الوَجْهِ, and الوجه, Beauty of the skin of the face.
3 And الدِّيبَاجَةُ The face [itself]; as also , and الدِّيبَاجَتَانِ: or the last signifies the two cheeks: or the two sides of the neck, beneath the ears; syn. اللِّيتَانِ. You say, فُلَانٌ يَصُونُ دِيبَاجَتَيْهِ, i. e. [Such a one preserves from disgrace] his cheeks; or دِيبَاجَتَهُ his face: and يَبْذُلُ دِيَبَاجَتَهُ [uses his face for mean service, by begging]. (Har p. 15. [See also 4 in art. خلق; and 1 in the same art.; where similar exs. are given.])
4 [Golius, after mentioning the signification of “ the two cheeks, ” adds, as on the authority of the K, in which even the word itself is not mentioned, “ et quibusdam quoque Nates. ”]
5 دِيبَاجَةُ السَّيْفِ I. q. أَثْرُهُ, q. v. (AZ, T in art. اثر.)

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