frontage

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   The front part of a property or building that faces the street.

   • Put your little reception-room here beside the door, and get the whole width of your house frontage for a square hall, and an easy low-tread staircase running up the sides of it.
   • Hotel Corones, which has risen phoenix-like on the site of the old Norman Hotel, has a frontage of 210 feet[.]
   • BishopsCourt appeared sometimes to want to rival the Canon's house. It looked a house-boat despite its guard of whitewashed stones and luxuriant flowers, its wooden fretwork frontage almost wholly immersed in bougainvillaea.
2. 2

   The land between a property and the street.

3. 3

   The length of a property along a street.

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   1. 4

      Property or territory adjacent to a body of water.

      • It is important to keep municipally owned land, especially lake frontage, in the hands of the municipality.
   2. 5

      The front part generally.

      • […] to the eyes of his mother and his aunt, who occupied wicker chairs at a little distance, he was almost indistinguishable except for the stiff white shield of his evening frontage.
      • War looks but to the frontage, the appearance.
   3. 6

      A woman's breasts.

      • "Bes dear," said Throttler, patting her breasts. "Do you think I should get one of those boob-jobs?" Bes looked at his hands, at her frontage, at his hands. "They say that more than a handful is a waste."
      • I'd go running in, pretend-breathless, nuzzle her neck, reach around to cup her frontage.
   4. 7

      a front

      a front: a public and perhaps false face or façade to some hidden, covert reality.

      • Promises and oaths were nothing but a rather awkwardly construed frontage with which to cover up, and win time for, an even more inept intrigue contrived towards the breaking of all promises and all oaths.

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