new-front
verbEtymology From new- + front.
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Ambitransitive, Archaic To put a new front on, or receive a new front.
- […] and yet the house where he had lodgings was new-fronting, and not in condition to receive him: but he could go to his friend Belford's, in Soho; […]1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady:
- […] repairing and new-fronting the Hospital of St. Mary Magdalen to improve one of the entrances […]1835, Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire Into the Municipal Corporations in England and Wales: