Definition of Housefront

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Housefront

housecoat
housecoats
housecraft
housed
housedog
housedoor
housedoors
housedress
housedresses
housefather
housefathers
houseflies
housefloor
housefloors
housefly
housefront (current term)
housefronts
houseful
housefuls
houseguest
houseguests
household
household appliance
household articles
household arts
household deities
household deity
household god
household gods
household income

Literary usage of Housefront

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Europe Revised by Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb (1914)
"And the rutty paving stones which stretch from housefront to housefront are crawling with people and goats and dogs and children. ..."

2. Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan by Asiatic Society of Japan (1902)
"... inch from one housefront, a foot from another and six feet from a third and so on, be taken off, -Asking the reason I was told that Tsushima no Kami had ..."

3. Stained Glass Tours in France by Charles Hitchcock Sherrill (1908)
"... and the ancient carved wood housefront transported from its original site, affixed to another dwelling and dubbed the House of Diane de Poitiers. ..."

4. The Writings of Lafcadio Hearn by Lafcadio Hearn (1922)
"Upon a housefront the color must appear monstrous, because giving the notion of the unnatural — of a huge blue dead solidity tangibly proximate. ..."

5. The Jig of Forslin: A Symphony by Conrad Aiken (1916)
"... A ladder is raised, up it a fireman crawls; And suddenly with a roar the ladder falls With the falling housefront into a storm of fire, ..."

6. Individualism: A System of Politics by Wordsworth Donisthorpe (1894)
"Any one with eyesight can paint a housefront or a deal box, but only a Millais the portrait of Gladstone in the Academy Exhibition of 1879. ..."

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