facade

pronunciation

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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.

Synonym

n.

front face

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 .

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