facade
noun /fəˈsɑːd/
/fəˈsɑːd/
(also façade)
- the front of a building
- a classical facade
- [usually singular] the way that somebody/something appears to be, which is different from the way somebody/something really is
- She managed to maintain a facade of indifference.
- They seem happy together, but it’s all a facade.
- Squalor and poverty lay behind the city's glittering facade.
Word Originmid 17th cent.: from French façade, from face ‘face’, on the pattern of Italian facciata.