frontage

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree English front Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus Latin -āticus Latin -āticum Old French -agebor. Middle English -age English -age English frontage From front + -age.

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.”

   “Hotel Corones, which has risen phoenix-like on the site of the old Norman Hotel, has a frontage of 210 feet[.]”

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 […]”

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

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.”

   “War looks but to the frontage, the appearance.”

6. 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."”

   “I'd go running in, pretend-breathless, nuzzle her neck, reach around to cup her frontage.”

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.”