different between frontage vs frottage

English

Etymology

front +? -age

Noun

frontage (countable and uncountable, plural frontages)

1. The front part of a property or building that faces the street.
   • 1885, William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham, New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1961, Chapter III, p. 41, [1]

     Put your little reception-room here beside the door, and get the whole width of your house frontage for a square hall, and an easy low-tread staircase running up the sides of it.

   • 1981, Wole Soyinka, Aké: The Years of Childhood, New York: Vintage, 1983, Chapter I, p. 5,

     BishopsCourt appeared sometimes to want to rival the Canon's house. It looked a house-boat despite its guard of whitewashed stones and luxuriant flowers, its wooden fretwork frontage almost wholly immersed in bougainvillaea.

2. The land between a property and the street.
3. The length of a property along a street.
4. Property or territory adjacent to a body of water.
   • 1939, Time, 12 June, 1939, [2]

     And here he brought up the entire subject of geopolitics in the Baltic, a sea which Germany in wartime must control to be able to assure herself of shipments of Swedish iron ore needed for her war factories, a sea on which Soviet Russia has a frontage of only 75 miles […]

   • 2016, The Chronicle Herald, 25 May, 2016, [3]

     It is important to keep municipally owned land, especially lake frontage, in the hands of the municipality.

5. The front part generally.
   • 1918, Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co.; Bartleby.com, 1999, [4]

     […] to the eyes of his mother and his aunt, who occupied wicker chairs at a little distance, he was almost indistinguishable except for the stiff white shield of his evening frontage.

   • 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 18, [5]

     War looks but to the frontage, the appearance.

Coordinate terms

• facade

Derived terms

• frontage road

Translations

English

Etymology

From French frotter (“to rub”).

Verb

frottage (third-person singular simple present frottages, present participle frottaging, simple past and past participle frottaged)

1. To rub, especially to rub onto one surface placed upon another surface that is textured, in order to create a mottled or patterned area on the first surface.
2. (sexology) To rub parts of the body against those of another person for sexual stimulation.

Noun

frottage (countable and uncountable, plural frottages)

1. (uncountable, art) A method of making an image by placing a piece of paper against an object and then rubbing over it, usually with a pencil or charcoal.
2. (countable, art) An image so made.
3. (uncountable, sexology) The practice of rubbing parts of the body against those of another person for sexual stimulation.

Hyponyms

• (sexology): tribadism

Coordinate terms

• (sexology): frotteurism

Related terms

• friction
• frot
• frotteurism

Translations

See also

• rubbing

French

Noun

frottage m (plural frottages)

1. rubbing
2. (art) frottage
3. (sex) frottage