Look up: Facade

1. facade
   [n] - a showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant 2. [n] - the face or front of a building
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2. facade
   In architecture, the front or principal face of a building. ...
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3. Façade
   A façade is the face or exterior of a building; more specifically, the front of a building that faces the street. The façade is often decorative if designed by an architect.
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4. facade
   The facade of a building is generally the front, and it implies a certain amount of design and decorative features.
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5. Facade
   front or face of a building, usually implies an architectural treatment. A nice way to think of it is as a business card which the building presents to passers by.
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6. Façade
   The front of a building, and any other sides of a building when they are emphasised architecturally. A façade usually accentuates the entrance to a building and prepares the visitor for the architectural style to be found inside.
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7. Façade
   Fa`çade' (fȧ`sȧd' or fȧ`sād') noun [ French, from Italian facciata , from faccia face, Latin facies . See Face .] (Architecture) The front of a building; esp., the principal ...
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8. facade
   window dressing noun a showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant
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9. facade
   frontage noun the face or front of a building
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10. Facade
    • (n.) The front of a building; esp., the principal front, having some architectural pretensions. Thus a church is said to have its facade unfinished, though the interior may be in use.
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11. façade
    (from the article `architecture, Western`) ...became the basis of most of the architecture of the Western world in the 17th century. A northern Italian, Maderno worked most of his life in Rome ... ...very elaborate (one of the exceptions is Saint-Pierre in Caen [1518–45], which has pendant bosses). But the development of window tra...
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12. Façade
    (from the article `Walton, Sir William`) ...Sitwell brothers, Osbert and Sacheverell, by whom he was virtually adopted, and he spent most of the next decade traveling with them or living ...
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13. Facade
    In architecture, the facade is the front (face or elevation) of a building; especially the principal front, having some architectural pretensions. Thus a church is said to have its facade unfinished, though the interior may be in use.
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14. FAÇADE
    The front of a building. Frequently, in architectural terms an artificial or decorative effort.
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15. FAÇADE
    The face or front of a building. California mission façades could be simple and completely unadorned (e.g. San Miguel) or more elaborate, as here at Mission San Carlos de Borromeo (Carmel).
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16. facade
    
    • the face or front of a building
    • a showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant
    
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17. facade
    facade (fusäd') , exterior face or wall of a building. The term implies ordered placement of its openings and other features and thus seems inapplicable to a wall without design. Any freestanding structure may have four or more facades, designated by their orientation (e.g., north facade); ...
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18. facade
    In architecture, a term used to refer to the front exterior of a building. Also, other exterior sides when they are emphasized.
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19. Facade
    A `facade` or `façade` () is generally one side of the exterior of a building, especially the front, but also sometimes the sides and rear. The word comes from the French language, literally meaning "frontage" or "face". In architecture, the facade of a building is often the m...
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20. Facade
    (comics) `Facade`, also known as `Erik Hanson`, is a DC Comics villain created by Paul Dini. His only appearance so far is in Detective Comics #821, drawn by J. H. Williams III. Fictional character biography: Erik Hanson was a busboy at the Peregrinator`s Club in Gotham City. As the cl...
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