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facade

or fa·çade

[ fuh-sahd, fa- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Architecture.
1. the front of a building, especially an imposing or decorative one.
2. any side of a building facing a public way or space and finished accordingly.
a superficial appearance or illusion of something:
They managed somehow to maintain a facade of wealth.

façade

/ fæ-; fəˈsɑːd /

Origin of facade¹

First recorded in 1650–60; from French, from Upper Italian faciada, Italian facciata, equivalent to facci(a) face + -ata -ade ¹

Origin of facade¹

C17: from French, from Italian facciata , from faccia face

Today the church is wrapped in scaffolding and metal ribbons are holding its façade in place until someone pays to repair it.

The façade of “love” put forward by religious conservatives has been slipping, as well.

In his infamous deposition video, you can clearly see that the “thug life” façade is stripped away.

He may look Top Gun, with his flight suit and aviator shades, but beneath the façade lays a man torn to pieces.

No, this is a victory for corporate greed digging its claws into whatever façade of a rationalization it can get within its grasp.

The windows are ornamented by tracery, and the façade is enriched by a free use of carving.

Below it is the café and restaurant de la Rotonde, a very well-built looking place, with its rounding façade on the corner.

There are narrow sash windows on the façade and a plain square-transomed doorway with a center wrought-iron balcony overhead.

The college is a very fine building, but is unfortunately hemmed in by a number of other buildings which hide its façade.

Not a drop of rain fell in the river; the immense façade opposite them was as dry as a skull; yet here was this muddy cataract.

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