new-front

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English

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Etymology

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From new- +‎ front.

Verb

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new-front (third-person singular simple present new-fronts, present participle new-fronting, simple past and past participle new-fronted)

  1. (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To put a new front on, or receive a new front.
    • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady:
      [] 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; []
    • 1835, Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire Into the Municipal Corporations in England and Wales:
      [] repairing and new-fronting the Hospital of St. Mary Magdalen to improve one of the entrances []