facade
pronunciation
How to pronounce facade in British English: UK [fəˈsɑːd]
How to pronounce facade in American English: US [fəˈsɑːd]
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- Noun:
- the face or front of a building
- a showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant
Word Origin
- facade (n.)
- 1650s, "front of a building," from French façade (16c.), from Italian facciata "the front of a building," from faccia "face," from Vulgar Latin *facia (see face (n.)). Figurative use by 1845.
Example
- 1. The apparent randomness of the scratch ticket was just a facade a mathematical lie .
- 2. Libya has never allowed even the facade of democracy and opposition that was tolerated in egypt .
- 3. So it remained through the early decades of the kingdom of italy when patron-client relations underlaid a facade of parliamentary liberalism .
- 4. The facade is adorned with 56 corinthian columns .
- 5. Private life without an historical dimension is a facade and a lie .