"new-front" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From new- + front.",
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      "form": "new-fronts",
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      "form": "new-fronting",
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      "form": "new-fronted",
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          "ref": "1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady:",
          "text": "[…] 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; […]",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1835, Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire Into the Municipal Corporations in England and Wales:",
          "text": "[…] repairing and new-fronting the Hospital of St. Mary Magdalen to improve one of the entrances […]",
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        "To put a new front on, or receive a new front."
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          "receive"
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        "(transitive, intransitive, archaic) To put a new front on, or receive a new front."
      ],
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        "archaic",
        "intransitive",
        "transitive"
      ]
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  ],
  "word": "new-front"
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From new- + front.",
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        "singular",
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        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "new-fronted",
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        "participle",
        "past"
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    },
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      "form": "new-fronted",
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        "past"
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  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "ref": "1835, Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire Into the Municipal Corporations in England and Wales:",
          "text": "[…] repairing and new-fronting the Hospital of St. Mary Magdalen to improve one of the entrances […]",
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      ],
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        "To put a new front on, or receive a new front."
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        "(transitive, intransitive, archaic) To put a new front on, or receive a new front."
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