We were fifty kilometers from the front but the adjutant worried about the fire in my kitchen.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
“I have, at least, a well-polished, silver-plated coffee-pot in front of me,” said he.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
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Dictionary
Merriam-Webster
— FOREHEAD
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Macmillan
— the surface of something that faces forwards
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Other Word Forms
fronted
fronting
fronts
Usage
6 uses of ‘front’ in In Our Time, by Ernest Hemingway
5 uses of ‘front’ in Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
31 uses of ‘front’ in The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
27 uses of ‘front’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle