fa·çade also fa·cade 
(fə-säd)
(fə-säd)n.
1. The face of a building, especially the principal face.
2. An artificial or deceptive front: ideological slogans that were a façade for power struggles.
[French, from Italian facciata, from faccia, face, from Vulgar Latin *facia, from Latin faciēs; see dhē- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]