block front

or block·front

[ blok fruhnt blok fruhnt ]

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.

Other Words From

• block-front adjective

Example Sentences

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

From BBC

In 1925, Small’s Paradise had opened with crowds all across Seventh Avenue; in 1926, the great Cotton Club, where Duke Ellington’s band would play for five years; also in 1926 the Savoy Ballroom opened, a whole block front on Lenox Avenue, with a two-hundred-foot dance floor under spotlights before two bandstands and a disappearing rear stage.

From Literature

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