block front

American  

[blok fruhnt, blok fruhnt] / ˈblɒk ˈfrʌnt, ˈblɒk ˌfrʌnt /

Or blockfront

noun

1. Furniture.  a front of a desk, chest of drawers, etc., of the third quarter of the 18th century, having three vertical divisions of equal width, a sunken one between raised ones, all divided by flat areas to which they are connected by curves, often with a shell motif forming a rounded termination to each section.

2. the frontage of a block, especially in a city or town.

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Other Word Forms

• block-front adjective

Example Sentences

Further excavation revealed a chassis, engine block, front bumper, window frames and other parts.

From BBC

Mr Copp said the wall was 6ft high and 10ft long and comprised of a breeze block front, asbestos sides and a corrugated metal roof.

From BBC

Joseph Moinian, chief executive of the Moinian Group, controls the block front along 11th Avenue from 34th to 35th Streets.

From New York Times

The gray, warehouselike structure that occupies a full block front at 470 Vanderbilt Avenue in Brooklyn is a hulking presence in a neighborhood that is changing through gentrification and about to be transformed by the glossy Atlantic Yards development.

From New York Times

The collection of 14 buildings — 11 of which are late 18th- and early 19th-century structures — takes up nearly the entire block front between Beekman Street and Peck Slip.

From New York Times