Frontage

/ˈfɹʌn.tɪd͡ʒ/ · noun

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. The front part of a property or building that faces the street.
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.
5. The front part generally.
6. (informal) A woman's breasts.
7. a front: a public and perhaps false face or façade to some hidden, covert reality.

Example Sentences

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.

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 […]

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

[…] 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.

"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."

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