façadenoun
uk/fəˈsɑːd/us/fəˈsɑːd/façade noun (BUILDING)
[ C ] the front of a building, especially a large or attractive building:
the gallery's elegant 18th-century façade
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Parts of buildings in general
- addition
- annex
- annexe
- elevation
- extension
- foundation
- frontage
- superstructure
- wing
façade noun (FALSE APPEARANCE)
[ S ] a false appearance that makes someone or something seem more pleasant or better than they really are:
He kept his hostility hidden behind a friendly façade.
We are fed up with this façade of democracy.
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Faking & pretending
- a wolf in sheep's clothing idiom
- affect
- assume
- believe
- bluff
- changeling
- charlatan
- feign
- fraud
- go through the motions idiom
- guise
- impostor
- play at sth
- play possum idiom
- play sth out
- play-acting
- pose as sb
- professed
- purport
- quack
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