façaden.
/fəˈsɑːd/ 1.
a. The face or front of a building towards a street or other open place, esp. the principal front. Also attributive or as adj., of an architectural design concerned with elegance, etc., in the façade of a building alone.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > [noun] > front or face
front1365
face1591
faciate1648
façade1656
frontsidea1699
frontage1861
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > style of architecture > [adjective] > other styles
florida1706
massive1723
rounded1757
round-arched1782
castellar1789
baronial1807
rational1813
English colonial1817
massy1817
transitional1817
Scottish Baronial1829
rococo1830
flamboyant1832
Scotch Baronial1833
Churrigueresque1845
Russo-Byzantine1845
soaring1849
trenchant1849
vernacular1857
Scots Baronial1864
baroque1867
Perp.1867
rayonnant1873
Dutch colonial1876
Neo-Grec1878
rococoesque1885
Richardsonian1887
federal1894
organic1896
confectionery1897
European-style1907
postmodern1916
Lutyens1921
modern1927
moderne1928
functionalist1930
Williamsburg1931
Colonial Revival1934
packing case1935
Corbusian1936
lavatorial1936
pseudish1938
Adamesque1942
rationalist1952
Miesian1956
open-planned1958
Lutyensesque1961
façade1962
Odeon1964
high-tech1979
Populuxe1986
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Facade, the fore-front forepart, outside or representation of the outside of a house.
1717 G. Berkeley Jrnls. Trav. Italy 24 Jan. in Wks. (1955) VII. 264 We observed the façades of many noble buildings.
1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. II. 266 The inner façade was repaired by Bernini.
1839 J. L. Stephens Incidents Trav. Greece, Turkey, Russia 88/1 The façade of the palace is unequalled.
1872 R. Browning Fifine cx Shadow sucked the whole Façade into itself.
1962 Listener 15 Nov. 806/2 A warning against façade architecture.
b. transferred and figurative.
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the world > space > relative position > front > [noun]
foremostc1275
headc1275
foreparty1398
forepartc1400
foresidec1400
devant1411
fronture1417
fore-endc1425
frontierc1430
forefront1488
forehead1525
frontc1540
vaunt1589
proscenium1648
frontside1697
van1726
fore-piece1788
façade1839
fore1888
1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. xx. 486 Beneath a façade of columnar lava, we ate our dinner.
1875 E. White Life in Christ (1878) iii. xviii. 230 The whole façade of the Evangelical theology.
2. (See quot. 1796.)
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1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 754 Their estates [in Demerara] are regularly laid out in lots along the sea shore, called facades.
Derivatives
faˈçadism n. the practice or principle of designing a building with elegance only in the façade.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > style of architecture > [noun] > other styles
transition1730
pasticcio1750
symmetrophobia1809
rococo1835
flamboyantism1846
collegiate Gothic1851
vernacular architecture1857
Neo-Grec1867
modernism1879
wedding-cake1879
Queen Anne1883
Colonial Revival1889
Chicago school1893
Dutch colonial1894
English colonial1894
monumentalism1897
vernacular1910
international style1911
Churrigueresque1913
postmodernism1914
prairie style1914
rationalism1918
lavatory style1919
functionalism1924
Mudéjar1927
façadism1933
open plan1938
Wrenaissance1942
pseudo1945
brutalism1953
open planning1958
neo-Liberty1959
Queen Annery1966
Jugendstil1967
moderne1968
strip architecture1976
high-tech1978
1933 Archit. Rev. 74 111 Façadism with a purpose, unlike the façadism of the new Railway Station at Milan.
1936 Times Lit. Suppl. 16 May 421/1 He..refuses to accept the recent revaluation of Nash and is more than tainted with ‘façadism’.
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