New-front
verb
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Definitions
Verb
- 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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