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fa·çade

also fa·cade (fə-säd′)

1. The face of a building, especially the principal face.

2. An artificial or deceptive front: ideological slogans that were a façade for power struggles.

[French, from Italian facciata, from faccia, face, from Vulgar Latin *facia, from Latin faciēs; see dhē- in Indo-European roots.]

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façade

(fəˈsɑːd; fæ-) or

facade

1. (Architecture) the face of a building, esp the main front

2. a front or outer appearance, esp a deceptive one

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

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fa•cade

art at faceplate

or fa•çade

(fəˈsɑd, fæ-)

n.

a. the front of a building, esp. an imposing or decorative one.

b. any side of a building facing a public way or space and finished accordingly.

2. a superficial appearance of something.

[1650–60; < French < Upper Italian faciada, Italian facciata, derivative of faccia face]

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Noun	1.	facade - the face or front of a building frontage, frontal front - the side that is seen or that goes first frontispiece - an ornamental facade
	2.	facade - a showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant window dressing deception, misrepresentation, deceit - a misleading falsehood

façade

noun

1. front, face, exterior, frontage the façade of the building

2. show, front, appearance, mask, exterior, guise, pretence, veneer, semblance They hid the troubles plaguing their marriage behind a façade of family togetherness.

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façade

also facade
noun

1. The forward outer surface of a building:

face, front, frontage, frontal.

Architecture: frontispiece.

2. A deceptive outward appearance:

cloak, color, coloring, cover, disguise, disguisement, face, false colors, front, gloss, guise, mask, masquerade, pretense, pretext, semblance, show, veil, veneer, window-dressing.

Slang: put-on.

Translations

مَظْهَر خَدّاعواجِهَة مَبْنى

фасада

fasádaprůčelítvářnostvzhled

facadefrontydre

Fassade

fachada portada

facade

épülethomlokzatkülszín

外観正面

faţadă

pozlátka

cephesahte görünüşyüz

正面虚伪

façade

[fəˈsɑːd] N (Archit) → fachada f (fig) → apariencia f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

facade

façade [fəˈsɑːd] n

(= frontage) [building] → façade f

(= show, semblance) → façade f
a facade of unity → une façade unitaire

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

façade

n (lit, fig) → Fassade f

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

façade

facade [fəˈsɑːd] n (Archit) → facciata (fig) → facciata, apparenza

façade

(fəˈsaːd) noun

1. the front of a building. the façade of the temple.

2. a pretended show. In spite of his bold façade, he was very frightened.

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L'esquif aborde et me depose, Jetant son amarre au pilier, Devant une facade rose, Sur le marbre d'un escalier.

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It was larger than the largest of the palaces or ruins I knew, and the facade had an Oriental look: the face of it having the lustre, as well as the pale-green tint, a kind of bluish-green, of a certain type of Chinese porcelain.

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The balls might be heard peppering the facade of the Palais Royal, and one of them, passing under D'Artagnan's arm, entered and broke a mirror, in which Porthos was complacently admiring himself.

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From a higher part of the road he had seen the long, classical facade of the great house with its many windows, almost immediately beneath him, but when the road ran down under the wall of the estate, topped with towering trees behind, he realized that it was half a mile round to the lodge gates, After walking for a few minutes along the lane, however, he came to a place where the wall had cracked and was in process of repair.

A ring of dense trees ran round the back of the island temple, framing the facade of it in dark foliage, and he could have sworn he saw a stir as of something moving among the leaves.

He soon picked up the path which, winding among clipped hedges and flower beds, brought him in front of its long Palladian facade. It had the usual appearance of being, not a private house, but a sort of public building sent into exile in the provinces.

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It was an apparition from that hidden life which lies, like a dark by-street, behind the goodly ornamented facade that meets the sunlight and the gaze of respectable admirers.

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There were a few streaks of bluish-green among the clouds, a few patches of watery light upon the earth, and then the dripping facade of San Miniato shone brilliantly in the declining sun.

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The facade, indeed, was wholly grim, with a castellated tower at one end, and a number of narrow, sunken windows looking askance on the wreck and ruin of a once prim, old-fashioned, high-walled garden.

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The homestead consisted of a threshing floor, outhouses, stables, a bathhouse, a lodge, and a large brick house with semicircular facade still in course of construction.

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Thus it threw shadows of these obscure and homely figures every evening with as much care over each contour as if it had been the profile of a court beauty on a palace wall; copied them as diligently as it had copied Olympian shapes on marble FACADES long ago, or the outline of Alexander, Caesar, and the Pharaohs.

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The facades of the buildings fronting upon the avenue within the wall were richly carven, and about the windows and doors were ofttimes set foot-wide borders of precious stones, intricate mosaics, or tablets of beaten gold bearing bas-reliefs depicting what may have been bits of the history of this forgotten people.