facade
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- noun
- /fəˈsɑːd/
:
fachada
- She admired the beautifully painted facade of the historic building.
- building facade
- brick facade
- palace facade
For Serdah, the height of the facade was to be limited to three floors.
- For Serdah, the height of the facade was to be limited to three floors.
- The light seemed to pulse from the facade of the brick building.
- It's, it's an amazing edifice that's just beautiful facade outside.
- and come through Watertown, there's a classical facade facing me, which happens to be a public school.
- And on this certain part of the street, I drove past two identical, identical buildings with corrugated facades, like Gray corrugated facades.
- I had to massage this facade, you know, into place.
Examples
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Warm currents rise from the pavements and shimmer up the facade of the Chrysler Building.
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You see the stepping stones and over here the facade of the House of the Fawn.
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Here we're looking at the process of how we put all the the pieces together to to form the whole facade of the building.
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Look at the facade now.
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The facade of the Church...
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The light seemed to pulse from the facade of the brick building.
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The facade is 84 feet long.
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Like in the facade of office building, I create a kind of garden, then people understood that we can create green on the facade of the building.
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They used that as the curved facade of their church.
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It's front facade is decorated with these beautiful mosaics and then the intricate carving that you see.
Synonyms
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1.0
The main front surface of an object or tool
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5.8
The front of a building that faces a street, river, or park
A decorated front of a building often with carvings or statues
Antonyms
Compounds
How Decorative
- Archaic
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Surface Forms
Etymology
The word facade comes from the Latin facies, which means 'face' and is the same idea as the English word face. So a building's facade is its front, the 'face' people see and often decorate.