frontage
noun/ˈfɹʌn.tɪd͡ʒ/
Etymology From front + -age.
7 senses
- 1The front part of a property or building that faces the street.
- 2The land between a property and the street.
- 3The length of a property along a street.
- 4Property or territory adjacent to a body of water.
- 5The front part generally.
- 6A woman's breasts.
- 7a front: a public and perhaps false face or façade to…
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.1885, William Dean Howells, chapter III, in The Rise of Silas Lapham:
- Hotel Corones, which has risen phoenix-like on the site of the old Norman Hotel, has a frontage of 210 feet[.]1973, John Larkins, Australian Pubs, page 173:
1 more example
- 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.1981, Wole Soyinka, chapter I, in Aké: The Years of Childhood, New York: Vintage, published 1983, page 5:
2
The land between a property and the street.
3
The length of a property along a street.
4
Property or territory adjacent to a body of water.
- And here he brought up the entire subject of geopolitics in the Baltic, a sea which Germany in wartime must control to be able to assure herself of shipments of Swedish iron ore needed for her war factories, a sea on which Soviet Russia has a frontage of only 75 miles […]1939 June 12, Time:
- It is important to keep municipally owned land, especially lake frontage, in the hands of the municipality.2016 May 25, The Chronicle Herald:
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.1918, Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., published 1999:
- War looks but to the frontage, the appearance.1924, Herman Melville, chapter 18, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:
6
Informal 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."2007, Dave Freer, Eric Flint, Pyramid Power:
- I'd go running in, pretend-breathless, nuzzle her neck, reach around to cup her frontage.2008, Lynn Veach Sadler, Not Dreamt of in Your Philosophy, page 134:
7
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.1963 [2006], Hannah Arendt, On Revolution, page 95:
- Synonyms
- breasts
- Derived terms
- frontager, frontage road, waterfrontage
- Coordinate terms
- facade