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new-fronting

new-fronting is the present participle and gerund of new-front.

Meaning of new-front

Verb

new-front (third-person singular simple present new-fronts, present participle new-fronting, simple past and past participle new-fronted)

  1. (ambitransitive, archaic) To put a new front on, or receive a new front.
    • […] and yet the house where he had lodgings was new-fronting, and not in condition to receive him: but he could go to his friend Belford's, in Soho; […]1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady

Questions about new-fronting

What is new-fronting the present participle and gerund of?
New-fronting is the present participle and gerund of new-front.

Words near new-fronting in the dictionary

  1. new-fangled
  2. new-fashioned
  3. new-found
  4. new-founded
  5. new-front
  6. new-fronting
  7. new-furnish
  8. new-generation
  9. new-ish
  10. new-look
  11. new-made

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Adapted from Wiktionary: new-fronting (page history and authors); new-front (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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