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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
frontage
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
river
▪ The whole of the Main Street and the river frontage has been made into a conservation area.
▪ Davis regained his lease to the river frontage, but this was quickly seized by the sheriff for non-payment of debt.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Davis regained his lease to the river frontage, but this was quickly seized by the sheriff for non-payment of debt.
▪ Duvall crept nearer to the glass frontage.
▪ Much more interesting are the larger complexes which occupy the vacant land immediately behind the main frontages.
▪ The vast restaurant area allows us a complicated exit choice of at least fifty yards of glass door frontage.
▪ Within minutes the crowd had dispersed, leaving the frontage of the Theater an der Wien unlit and deserted.
▪ Yet he is more fortunate than most landowners, because he owns frontage on the Guadalupe River, which is still running.
▪ You pull up on the frontage road and park.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Frontage

Frontage \Front"age\, n. The front part of an edifice or lot; extent of front.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
frontage

1620s, from front (n.) + -age.

Wiktionary
frontage

n. 1 The front part of a property that faces the street 2 The land between a property and the street 3 The length of a property along a street

WordNet
frontage
  1. n. the extent of the front of shop or plot of land (as along a street or river etc)

  2. the direction in which something (such as a building) faces

  3. the face or front of a building [syn: facade, frontal]

Wikipedia
Frontage

Frontage is the boundary between a plot of land or a building and the road onto which the plot or building fronts. Frontage may also refer to the full length of this boundary. This length is considered especially important for certain types of commercial and retail real estate, in applying zoning bylaws and property tax. In the case of contiguous buildings individual frontages are usually measured to the middle of any party wall.

In some parts of the United States, particularly New England, a frontage road is one which runs parallel to a major road or highway, and is intended primarily for local access to and egress from those properties which line it.

River frontage and ocean frontage is the length of a plot of land that faces directly onto a river or ocean respectively. The amount of such frontage may affect the value of the plot.

Usage examples of "frontage".

The village consists of two short streets, 8 feet wide composed entirely of yadoyas of various grades, with a picturesquely varied frontage of deep eaves, graceful balconies, rows of Chinese lanterns, and open lower fronts.

I felt that I had only to look behind the frontages of the houses to discover that they were made of hardboard and plaster.

To go to Paris, however, was hardly more attractive than to remain at Havre, for Bernard had a lively vision of the heated bitumen and the glaring frontages of the French capital.

The mew with its granite setts takes them away from the tower blocks and maisonettes to a world of gentrified Victorian cottages converted from stables, and flat-roofed, architect-designed houses in wood and yellow brick, with living room windows on the first floor extending the width of the frontage.

The higgledly-piggledy line of the village houses with their uneven roof lines, crooked chimneys, thatch or slate roofs and pargeted or brick frontages, every detail deeply familiar, stood serenely unchanged.

A long frontage of lamp-lit quays was on our left, with here and there the vague hull of a steamer alongside.

The quays stretched away showing double rows of those luminous beads whose reverberation glimmered on the nearer frontages.

The frontage of the shoppe on the alley had seemed only twenty feet across, but here inside it was easily ten times as wide.

Hologram adverts swarmed up the frontage of the ground level shops, bright fantasy worlds and beautiful people shining enticingly.

The hold was configured for rapid assaults: instead of a single hatch across the entire frontage, worked by a screw jack, the hold had six paired clamshell doors that sprang open under the action of powerful hydraulic rams.

Home was a little behind the main frontage of Grozny, so to speak, a T-shaped pocket, a pleasantly lit little dead-end street called Grozny Close, which protected its hundred or so apartments from the traffic and rush and the slightly higher crime rate of Grozny Street proper.

The mew with its granite setts takes them away from the tower blocks and maisonettes to a world of gentrified Victorian cottages converted from stables, and flat-roofed, architect-designed houses in wood and yellow brick, with living room windows on the first floor extending the width of the frontage.

On Sunday morning I went to the smiddy that used to be a mile up the road here to get some keys I had ordered, and I was coming back along the frontage with the keys in my hand, and when I struck the river about half-a-mile above here the first thing that caught my eye was a canoe, with a couple of oars in it, sailing along on its own account.

So instead of going back to the stage at which he had landed, he walked on towards the fascinating rosy frontage of the Ducal Palace, and the lofty red-brick tower of the Campanile, with its white arcades and pointed crest jutting high above the roofs from the still invisible square beyond.

Barred and shuttered frontages that might or might not be rolled up for business during daylight hours, steam rising from a grate in the side of the street like something alive.