Pretenses

Usage examples of facades.

The lower-class courtesans sat behind the wooden latticework facades of their brothels.

Crowded shoulder to shoulder down one side of the cobbled lane, their miniature facades suggested a shuttered sideshow in some secret urban carnival.

Music Master, Chia saw the facades of the great square vanish entirely behind curtains of snow.

The commercial properties on the narrow main street were all wood frame, two- and three-story structures built side by side, with tall, fake facades, steep outside wooden stairs, and plank walkways between buildings instead of the usual side-walks.

Behind the grimy, soot-darkened facades of their houses were sumptuous palaces of fragrant cypress and cryptomeria wood, and white-plastered storehouses stacked to the rafters with chests of silks and lacquer ware and porcelain.

Behind the soot-black facades of the Royal Mile lie the old tenements surrounding their barren courts.

The buildings were the same, tall tenements with narrow twisting passages between them, their facades alternating between patched eroded brick and pale stucco that had generally seen better days.

Each of the exterior facades was decorated in a different architectural style.

The streets started to waken as they drove, yellow oblongs of light suddenly breaking the grey facades of houses.