facia
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of facia
1880–85; spelling variant of fascia, perhaps through confusion with Latin faciēs, English face, facial, etc.
Example Sentences
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Not being able to make myself understood I went outside, looked at the facia, and found I had gone to the wrong address.
From Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben by Mahoney, Henry Charles
The name on the elaborately gilded facia was, beyond any doubt, Eden—Frederick Eden.
From The Literary Sense by Nesbit, E. (Edith)
Outside of school--testudine facia, that sort of thing.
From Dragon's blood by Rideout, Henry Milner
The newspaper shop displayed the number given in the note on its grimy facia.
From The Grell Mystery by Froest, Frank
All unsuccessful dogmatical attempts of reason are facia, which it is always useful to submit to the censure of the sceptic.
From The Critique of Pure Reason by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow
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