| 释义 |
▪ I. frontage, n.|ˈfrʌntɪdʒ|
[f. front n. + -age.
Not in Johnson or Todd.]
1. Land which abuts on a river or piece of water, or on a road. Also, the land between the front of a building and the road, etc.
1622Callis Stat. Sewers (1647) 87 Frontage is where the grounds of any man do joyn with the brow or front thereof to the Sea, or to great or royal streams. 1813Examiner 17 May 319/2 They have obliged proprietors of houses situated at a short distance from the road to purchase their frontage. 1831Drakard's Stamford News 4 Feb. Advt. 1 Two Frontages with two cottages upon the same. 1861M. Pattison Ess. (1889) I. 46 One corner of the Thames Street frontage [of the Steelyard] was occupied by a wine⁓house. 1870Daily News 16 Feb., The remainder of the establishment consisting chiefly of the river frontage, will then be sold in plots. 1875Spectator (Melbourne) 15 May 16/1 It might be bought and sold in the market any day, like a Collins-street frontage.
2. Measurement of front-line, extent of front.
1844Port Phillip Patriot 18 July 3/7 The run has four miles frontage to the Yarra Yarra. 1863Hinchliff Trav. S. Amer. 24 Shopkeepers in the best quarters pay enormous rents, but get very little frontage to display their goods. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Frontage, the length or face of a wharf. 1873Geikie Gt. Ice Age v. 66 The..glacier..shedding icebergs along its whole vast extent of frontage. 1887Times (weekly ed.) 1 July 20/4 The substantial old Family Mansion..extensive frontage of 35 ft.
3. The front face or part of a building. Also collect.
1861Times 16 Aug., There is a breadth of roadway and a grandeur of frontage that would not disgrace the neighbourhood of Piccadilly. 1875Merivale Gen. Hist. Rome lxxix. (1877) 669 The august capitals of Egypt and Syria, with their long columnar frontages, and marked horizontal lines of architecture. 1875M. Pattison Casaubon 400 Savile was just finishing the fine frontage towards the meadows. 1877M. M. Grant Sun-Maid ii, The frontage of the Château looked southward. 1894Daily News 5 Sept. 5/3 A municipal law requires the frontages of Paris houses to be painted or scraped every six or seven years.
4. Mil. ‘The ground troops of line occupy either on parade or in camp’ (Voyle).
1893Times 15 June 12/1 The battalion commander ‘instructs the captains as to the frontage of their companies.’
5. The action of fronting in a certain direction; the fact of facing a certain way; exposure, outlook.
1859R. F. Burton Centr. Afr. in Jrnl. Geog. Soc. XXIX. 183 The breeze is..excluded by careless frontage. 1867D. G. Mitchell Rural Stud. 286 But it has no wide and open frontage to the sun. 1871Daily News 22 Sept., We had changed front left back to meet his flank attack; now we had still to maintain that frontage.
¶ An alleged sense ‘part of a woman's head-dress’, given in some Dicts., is based on a blundered version of a passage of Addison: see quot. 1711, s.v. fontange.
6. attrib., as frontage-foot, frontage-owner, frontage-rate, frontage-system; frontage-claim, a portion of land of a definite measurement in front, but of indefinite length towards the rear.
1869R. B. Smyth Goldf. Victoria 612 Frontage-claim—A claim, the lateral boundaries of which are not fixed until the lead has been traced through it. 1877Black Green Past. xli. (1878) 325 We would cover every frontage foot with gold. 1889Spectator 14 Dec. 843 The small affair of a frontage rate. 1890Boldrewood Miner's Right viii. 81 The frontage system..was considered..to afford a highly needful guarantee for capital invested in mining enterprise. 1896Star 15 Dec. 2/6 Charging the frontage owners 9s. in the pound.
▪ II. frontage, v.|ˈfrʌntɪdʒ|
[f. the n.]
trans. To face; to have the front towards.
1914N. Munro New Road ii. 17 Narrow, broken lanes with all the gable-ends of the abutting buildings frontaging the thoroughfare. 1958Times 15 Mar. 7/5 His ratable value increased because he now frontages a made-up road. |