English
frontage
Noun

frontage

  1. The front part of a property or building that faces the street.
    • 1885, William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham, New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1961, Chapter III, p. 41,
      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.
    • 1981, Wole Soyinka, Aké: The Years of Childhood, New York: Vintage, 1983, Chapter I, p. 5,
      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. 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.
    • 1939, Time, 12 June, 1939, [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,762380,00.html]
      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 […]
    • 2016, The Chronicle Herald, 25 May, 2016, [https://web.archive.org/web/20160528152859/http://thechronicleherald.ca/letters/1367258-voice-of-the-people-%E2%80%94-may-26-2016]
      It is important to keep municipally owned land, especially lake frontage, in the hands of the municipality.
  5. The front part generally.
    • 1918, Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co.; Bartleby.com, 1999,
      […] 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.
    • 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 18,
      War looks but to the frontage, the appearance.
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