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façade|fəˈsɑːd|
[a. F. façade, f. face, after It. facciata, f. faccia face n.]
1. a. The face or front of a building towards a street or other open place, esp. the principal front. Also attrib. or as adj., of an architectural design concerned with elegance, etc., in the façade of a building alone. Hence faˈçadism, such a practice or principle.
1656–81in Blount Glossogr. 1717Berkeley Tour in Italy Wks. 1871 IV. 534 We observed the façades of many noble buildings. 1756–7tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) II. 397 The inner façade was repaired by Bernini. 1839J. L. Stephens Trav. Greece, etc. 88/1 The façade of the palace is unequalled. 1872Browning Fifine cx, Shadow sucked the whole Façade into itself. 1933Archit. Rev. LXXIV. 111 Façadism with a purpose, unlike the façadism of the new Railway Station at Milan. 1936Times Lit. Suppl. 16 May 421/1 He..refuses to accept the recent revaluation of Nash and is more than tainted with ‘façadism’. 1962Listener 15 Nov. 806/2 A warning against façade architecture.
b. transf. and fig.
1845Darwin Voy. Nat. xviii. (1852) 407 Beneath a façade of columnar lava, we ate our dinner. 1875E. White Life in Christ iii. xviii. (1878) 230 The whole façade of the Evangelical theology.
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1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 754 Their estates [in Demerara] are regularly laid out in lots along the sea shore, called facades. |