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  1.                 From en.wiktionary.org:
                    

    ** English

    *** Etymology

    From [en].

    *** Pronunciation

    - [en] - [en]

    *** Noun

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    1. The front part of a property or building that faces the street . 2. * [chapter=III] 3. * [1=en] 4. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1981 | author=w:Wole Soyinka | title= [Aké: The Years of Childhood] | chapter=I | page=5 | publisher=Vintage | year_published=1983 | location=New York |passage=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.}}

    1. The land between a property and the street. 2. The length of a property along a street. 3. Property or territory adjacent to a body of water. 4. * {{ quote-journal | en | journal= 吴语: Time (magazine) | date=12 June 1939 | titleurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130827070614/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,762380,00.html |passage=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 [...]}}

    1. * {{ quote-journal | en | journal=w:The Chronicle Herald | date=25 May 2016 | titleurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160528152859/http://thechronicleherald.ca/letters/1367258-voice-of-the-people-%E2%80%94-may-26-2016 |passage=It is important to keep municipally owned land, especially lake FRONTAGE, in the hands of the municipality.}}

    1. The front part generally. 2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1918 | author=w:Booth Tarkington | title=w:The Magnificent Ambersons | location=Garden City, NY | publisher=Doubleday, Page & Co. | year_published=1999 | url=http://www.bartleby.com/160/ |passage=[...] 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..}}

    1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1924 | author=w:Herman Melville | title=w:Billy Budd | location=London | publisher=Constable & Co. | chapter=18 | url=http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0608511h.html |passage=War looks but to the FRONTAGE, the appearance.}}

    1. [en] A woman's breasts. 2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2007 | author=Dave Freer; Eric Flint | title=Pyramid Power |passage="Bes dear," said Throttler, patting her breasts. "Do you think I should get one of those boob-jobs?"<br>Bes looked at his hands, at her FRONTAGE, at his hands. "They say that more than a handful is a waste."}}

    1. * [en] 2. a front : a public and perhaps false face or façade to some hidden, covert reality. 3. * [en]

    **** Synonyms

    - See Thesaurus:breasts

    **** Coordinate terms

    - [en]

    **** Derived terms

    {{col|en|frontager |frontage road |waterfrontage }}

    **** Translations

    [the front part of a property]

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