单词 | backage |
释义 | backage|ˈbækɪdʒ| [f. back n.1, after frontage.] The back part of a building or row of buildings; the line or outlook of buildings or plots of land on the rear side.
1887Fenn This Man's Wife II. ii. xviii. 92 A high wall right and left to complete the blankness of the frontage. It ought to have been called the backage; for Sir Gordon Bourne's house was very pleasant on the other side. 1892Pall Mall Gaz. 22 Mar. 2/3 Converting slummy ‘backages’ into handsome frontages. 1894G. du Maurier Trilby II. vi. 191 Tall trees, whose lightly-falling leaves yellowed the pavement for at least a hundred yards of frontage—or backage, rather; for this was but the rear of that stately palace. |

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