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Frontage is the part of a building or a piece of land that runs along a road, a river, or the sea — the edge that faces the world. People who buy and sell land care about it because a shop with a wide frontage can put a big window on the street, and a house with river frontage sits on the water. It is not simply the pretty face of a building; it is that strip of contact with the road or water, often talked about as a length. You mainly meet it in property, planning, and law, not in casual chat.
臨街面、面寬(台灣看房常說面寬)
組成From front + -age. The ending -age makes a noun: the front part, or the fact of having a front along a road or river.
同家族的字
- frontthe side that faces the road or river
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
frontagenoun/ˈfɹʌn.tɪd͡ʒ/
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The front part of a property or building that faces the street.
- Put your little reception-room here beside the door, and get the whole width of your house frontage for a square hall, and an easy low-tread staircase running up the sides of it.
- Hotel Corones, which has risen phoenix-like on the site of the old Norman Hotel, has a frontage of 210 feet[.]
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The land between a property and the street.
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The length of a property along a street.
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Property or territory adjacent to a body of water.
- 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 […]
- It is important to keep municipally owned land, especially lake frontage, in the hands of the municipality.
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The front part generally.
- […] 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.
- War looks but to the frontage, the appearance.
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informalA woman's breasts.
- "Bes dear," said Throttler, patting her breasts. "Do you think I should get one of those boob-jobs?" Bes looked at his hands, at her frontage, at his hands. "They say that more than a handful is a waste."
- I'd go running in, pretend-breathless, nuzzle her neck, reach around to cup her frontage.
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a front: a public and perhaps false face or façade to some hidden, covert reality.
- Promises and oaths were nothing but a rather awkwardly construed frontage with which to cover up, and win time for, an even more inept intrigue contrived towards the breaking of all promises and all oaths.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。