New-front

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To put a new front on, or receive a new front. ambitransitive, archaic

    "[…] and yet the house where he had lodgings was new-fronting, and not in condition to receive him: but he could go to his friend Belford's, in Soho; […]"

Example

More examples

"[…] and yet the house where he had lodgings was new-fronting, and not in condition to receive him: but he could go to his friend Belford's, in Soho; […]"

Etymology

From new- + front.

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