frontage

noun frontages

1. countable, uncountable 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.
2. countable, uncountable The land between a property and the street.
3. countable, uncountable The length of a property along a street.
4. countable, uncountable 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 […]
5. countable, uncountable 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.
6. countable, informal, uncountable 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."
7. countable, uncountable 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.

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