facade
See also: façade
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From French façade, from Italian facciata, a derivation of faccia (“front”), from Latin facies (“face”); compare face.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
facade (plural facades)
- (architecture) The face of a building, especially the front view or elevation.
- 1865, James Fergusson, A History of Architecture in All Countries
- In Egypt the façades of their rock-cut tombs were […] ornamented so simply and unobtrusively as rather to belie than to announce their internal magnificence.
- 1880, Charles Eliot Norton, Historical Studies of Church-Building in the Middle Ages
- Like so many of the finest churches, [the cathedral of Siena] was furnished with a plain substantial front wall, intended to serve as the backing and support of an ornamental façade.
- 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter V, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:
- The house of Ruthven was a small but ultra-modern limestone affair, between Madison and Fifth ; […]. As a matter of fact its narrow ornate façade presented not a single quiet space that the eyes might rest on after a tiring attempt to follow and codify the arabesques, foliations, and intricate vermiculations of what some disrespectfully dubbed as “near-aissance.”
- 2005, Peter Brandvold, “Ghost Colts”, in Robert J. Randisi (ed.), Lone Star Law,[1] Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 179,
- Eight or so gunmen stood shoulder to shoulder in the gray-white trail before the barn, firing into the saloon's burning, bullet-pocked facade.
- 1865, James Fergusson, A History of Architecture in All Countries
- (by extension) The face or front (most visible side) of any other thing, such as an organ.
- (figurative) A deceptive or insincere outward appearance; a front.
- (programming) An object serving as a simplified interface to a larger body of code, as in the facade pattern.
SynonymsEdit
- (face of a building): face, front, frontage
- (deceptive outward appearance): appearance, cover, front, guise, pretence, show
Coordinate termsEdit
- (front of a building): frontage
- (deceptive appearance): See Thesaurus:fake
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
face of a building
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front of anything
deceptive outward appearance
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Further readingEdit
DanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From French façade, from Italian facciata, a derivation of faccia (“front”), from Latin facies (“face”)
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
facade c (singular definite facaden, plural indefinite facader)
InflectionEdit
Declension of facade
| common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | facade | facaden | facader | facaderne |
| genitive | facades | facadens | facaders | facadernes |