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单词 backfront
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back-front
back-front n.
Brit. /ˈbakfrʌnt/
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U.S. /ˈbækˌfrənt/
the ground in an etching or engraving.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > [noun] > ground
ground1728
back-front1752
1752 tr. E. F. Gersaint Catal. Etchings Rembrandt 59 The Back-front or Ground is generally foul.
extracted from back-comb. form
back-front
6. Architecture. ‘Any side or face of a building, but more commonly used to denote the entrance side’ (Gwilt); occasionally collective in singular, and plural = ‘the four sides’ (of a mansion). Also back-front, rear front n. 2.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > [noun] > front or face
front1365
face1591
faciate1648
façade1656
frontsidea1699
frontage1861
1365 in W. H. D. Longstaffe & J. Booth Halmota Prioratus Dunelmensis (1889) 41 Non fecit clausuram tenementi sui de le front.
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Ezek. xl. 9 He metide..the frount therof in two cubitis.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 181/1 Frownt, or frunt of a churche, or oþer howsys.
1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) 16 And the contrary fault of low distended Fronts, is as unseemly.
1700 Moxon's Mech. Exercises: Bricklayers-wks. 26 A Building, which is 25 Feet, both in the Front and Reer Front.
1772 J. Adams tr. A. de Ulloa Voy. S. Amer. (ed. 3) II. 32 The fronts being of stone.
1803 Gazetteer Scotl. at Dundee The Town-house, an elegant structure, with a handsome front.
1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands III. 150 Monastic cloisters with their dark length of front.
1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands III. 166 One of the back-fronts of the old palace.
1888 J. W. Burgon Lives Twelve Good Men II. xii. 355 The garden front was most inconveniently embowered..in forest trees.
1893 W. P. Courtney in Academy 13 May 413/1 The fronts of the mansion were decorated with statues by skilled sculptors.
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