frontage

plural frontages

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

   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

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   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

   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. countableuncountableThe land between a property and the street.
3. countableuncountableThe length of a property along a street.
4. countableuncountableProperty 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.

   2016 May 25, The Chronicle Herald

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   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

5. countableuncountableThe front part generally.

   War looks but to the frontage, the appearance.

   1924, Herman Melville, chapter 18, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.

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   […] 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

6. countableinformaluncountableA woman's breasts.

   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

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   "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

7. countableuncountablea 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