frontage road
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of frontage road
First recorded in 1945–50
Example Sentences
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A long time they waited, sitting in a line dozens of cars long on a short frontage road in the heart of Kent.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 8, 2023
It was housed off a frontage road in San Rafael in a nondescript building “with a little sign in front that said ‘Kerner Optics’ or ‘optical division’ or something like that,” Poor tells me.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 22, 2022
“He does support the frontage road as a safe alternative.”
From Washington Times ● Jul. 10, 2018
Brodard Chateau is probably the swankest restaurant in Little Saigon, a converted Victorian mansion marooned on a freeway frontage road.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2017
It turns out to be an unprepossessing white clapboard house on a frontage road off the freeway: authenticity!
From Salon ● Mar. 6, 2016
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