backagen.
/ˈbakɪdʒ/ The back part of a building or row of buildings; the line or outlook of buildings or plots of land on the rear side.
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rear front1700
back-frontc1702
backage1887
1887 G. M. Fenn This Man's Wife II. ii. xviii. 92 A high wall right and left to complete the blankness of the frontage. It ought to have been called the backage; for Sir Gordon Bourne's house was very pleasant on the other side.
1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 22 Mar. 2/3 Converting slummy ‘backages’ into handsome frontages.
1894 G. Du Maurier Trilby II. vi. 191 Tall trees, whose lightly-falling leaves yellowed the pavement for at least a hundred yards of frontage—or backage, rather; for this was but the rear of that stately palace.
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