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back-front
[back a. 1, back- A. 5.]
The rear boundary line or elevation of a building.
c1702C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 293 The back Front goes out into a garden or Court. 1726Leoni Alberti's Archit. I. 39/2 From the middle of the Fore-front of the Work I draw a Line quite thro' to the Back-front. 1738Defoe & Richardson Tour thro' Gt. Brit. (ed. 2) I. 124 On the Back-front of the House was to be a noble Range of Stoves for tender Exotic Plants. 1800Hull Advertiser 28 June 3/4 The workmen employed in modernising the backfront of the house. 1805T. Thornton Sporting Tour through France (1806) II. 104 A Sporting palace... The back-front is decorated with a profusion of horns of stags, deer. 1907Westm. Gaz. 29 Nov. 12/1 Downing built ‘four plain square brick mansions’ on it with ‘back-fronts’ to St. James's Park.
transf.1790Loiterer 16 Jan. No. 51, p. 8 The Lady seemed, when I saw only the back-front, a fine young woman. 1900Kipling in Times 15 Mar. 8/1 The home Government..maintain intimate relations with all sides, with the front, and the far more important ‘back-front’ which begins at Pretoria. |