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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
facade
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
maintain
▪ Now the wise extra-mural department would doubtless maintain a facade of what appear to be voluntary committees.
▪ Indeed, the need to maintain the facade of politesse is often paramount.
▪ The unsophisticated and desperate ones brazened it out by maintaining a facade of affluence or normalcy by borrowing.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Behind her cheerful facade, she's really a lonely person.
▪ Work is underway to repair the Taj Mahal's marble facade.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At the same time, she remained a perfectionist, equally determined to present a flawless facade.
▪ Indeed, the need to maintain the facade of politesse is often paramount.
▪ On both their parts, it seems, the good cheer was a facade for the benefit of the other.
▪ The facade of the building at least escaped from rigour.
▪ The facade will be changed by the removal of the old canopy and the installation of an illuminated screen above the entrance.
▪ The garage dominates the facade, although recent exceptions to this rule have emerged in scattered developments.
▪ There was no expression on his face, just the blank skin facade of hunger and tiredness.
▪ Unfortunately he has concealed them behind a flimsy facade of demagoguery.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Facade

Facade \Fa`[,c]ade"\ (f[.a]`s[.a]d" or f[.a]`s[=a]d"), n. [F., fr. It. facciata, fr. faccia face, L. facies. See Face.] (Arch.) The front of a building; esp., the principal front, having some architectural pretensions. Thus a church is said to have its fa[,c]ade unfinished, though the interior may be in use.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
facade

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.

Wiktionary
facade

n. 1 The face of a building, especially the front. 2 (context figuratively English) A deceptive outward appearance.

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WordNet
facade

  1. n. the face or front of a building [syn: frontage, frontal]

  2. a showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant [syn: window dressing]

Wikipedia
Facade

A façade is generally one exterior side of a building, usually, but not always, the front. It is a foreign loan word from the French façade, which means " frontage" or " face".

In architecture, the façade of a building is often the most important aspect from a design standpoint, as it sets the tone for the rest of the building. From the engineering perspective of a building, the façade is also of great importance due to its impact on energy efficiency. For historical facades, many local zoning regulations or other laws greatly restrict or even forbid their alteration.

Façade (interactive story)

Façade is an artificial-intelligence-based interactive story created by Michael Mateas and Andrew Stern. It was the winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2006 Slamdance Independent Games Festival and has been exhibited at several international art shows. In 2010, it was included as one of the titles in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die.

Façade (entertainment)

Façade is a series of poems by Edith Sitwell, best known as part of Façade – An Entertainment in which the poems are recited over an instrumental accompaniment by William Walton. The poems and the music exist in several versions.

Sitwell began to publish some of the Façade poems in 1918, in the literary magazine Wheels. In 1922 many of them were given an orchestral accompaniment by Walton, Sitwell's protégé. The "entertainment" was first performed in public in 1923, and achieved both fame and notoriety for its unconventional form. Walton arranged two suites of his music for full orchestra. When Frederick Ashton made a ballet of Façade in 1931, Sitwell did not wish her poems to be part of it, and the orchestral arrangements were used.

After Sitwell's death, Walton published supplementary versions of Façade for speaker and small ensemble using numbers dropped between the premiere and the publication of the full score in 1951.

Façade (film)

Façade (also known as Death Valley) is a 2000 thriller film starring Eric Roberts.

Façade (ballet)

Façade is a ballet by Frederick Ashton, to the music of William Walton; it is a balletic interpretation of items from Façade – an Entertainment (1923) by Walton and Edith Sitwell. The ballet was first given by the Camargo Society at the Cambridge Theatre, on 26 April 1931. It has been regularly revived and restaged all over the world.

Facade (disambiguation)

Facade is the exterior of a building.

Facade (or the French word façade) may also refer to:

  • Facade constitutions
  • Facade (entertainment), poems by Edith Sitwell set to music by William Walton.
  • Facade (ballet), a ballet by Frederick Ashton based on the Sitwell/Walton work, above
  • Facade (film), a 2000 movie starring Eric Roberts.
  • Façade (interactive story), an independent experimental video game in the genre of interactive fiction.
  • Facade pattern, in programming, a structural pattern used alongside an API.
  • Façade (song), by Disturbed on the album Indestructible
  • Facades, an album by Sad Café
  • Facades, a composition by Philip Glass
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Usage examples of "facade".

The Angel had manifested a human face for the wondercruise: an Apollonian facade with bronzed skin, a long Roman nose, tight brass ringlets with bronze highlights.

Gabin and loped off just before the Besas pocked and the flamethrower blackened the facade of the prison.

Closed, it was a striking but simple, unpretentious piece with a flat, unembellished facade crafted from the honeytoned woods favored by Biedermeier artisans.

The stark contrast with the fear-haunted, angry, sensitive, and hurt Bradbury revealed in his later writings suggests a deliberate early facade.

It is a great rectangular structure of bricks 165 feet long and 84 broad, the external walls of which were originally ornamented by deep polygonal grooves, resembling those which score the facade of Chaldaean buildings, but the Nagadeh tomjb has a second brick wall which fills up all the hollows left in the first one, and thus hides the primitive decoration of the monument.

An illuminated clockface mounted on the facade of a great banking establishment showed an hour and a half until midnight.

All the Castles built between 1921 and 1925 in Wichita, Omaha, and Kansas City were constructed from cement blocks on an identical ten-by-fifteen-foot floor plan, with the same crenellated facade and whitewashed exterior.

Featuring a Tudor facade with South-of-France striped awnings, the restaurant was the happy marriage of two stores with upper lofts merged into a Dickensian fantasy.

The facade of foppishness slipped, and the ruler of Zhentil Keep withdrew the handkerchief from his face.

Nestled on the Guadalupe River, the Gristmill Restaurant was built on the remains of the old Gruene cotton gin, and the facade could have been a set in a classic spaghetti Western.

They were walking slowly across the forecourt now, between the stunted remains of its stout columns towards the facade of the hypostyle hall.

KGB office in Khabarovsk was a ragged hole in the grey facades along Komsomolskaya Square.

The facade of enmity between Kerestyn and Koli had fooled all but a clever few.

He even says that all the village knew of my journeys to the tomb, and that I was often watched as I slept in the bower outside the grim facade, my half-open eyes fixed on the crevice that leads to the interior.

And now, the following morning, which though grey, hinted at sunlight to come, he swung Micawber across the halfmoon of gravel in front of its facade, and confirmed the accuracy of the Rev.