Definition of "frontage"

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.

1885, William Dean Howells, chapter III, in The Rise of Silas Lapham‎

Hotel Corones, which has risen phoenix-like on the site of the old Norman Hotel, has a frontage of 210 feet[.]

1973, John Larkins, Australian Pubs, page 173

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.

1981, Wole Soyinka, chapter I, in Aké: The Years of Childhood, New York: Vintage, published 1983, page 5

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 […]

1939 June 12, Time

It is important to keep municipally owned land, especially lake frontage, in the hands of the municipality.

2016 May 25, The Chronicle Herald

[…] 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.

1918, Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons‎, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., published 1999

War looks but to the frontage, the appearance.

1924, Herman Melville, chapter 18, in Billy Budd‎, London: Constable & Co.

I'd go running in, pretend-breathless, nuzzle her neck, reach around to cup her frontage.

2008, Lynn Veach Sadler, Not Dreamt of in Your Philosophy, page 134