Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A suffix of Greek origin, now usually -ad, as in
decade (sometimesdecad ), nomade (usually nomad, like monad, triad, etc.). - A suffix of nouns of French or other Romance origin, as accolade, ambuscade, brigade, cannonade, lemonade, etc., or of (a few) English nouns formed on the same model, as blockade, orangeade.
- A suffix of nouns of Spanish or Italian origin (originally masculine form of preceding), as brocade, renegade, etc. It also appears in the Spanish form -ado, as in renegado, desperado.
- noun A drink of the lemonade or orangeade class.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice
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Examples
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Her façade is starting to flicker and fade into an electric blue haze, allowing me to see her true metallic shape underneath.
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Her façade is starting to flicker and fade into an electric blue haze, allowing me to see her true metallic shape underneath.
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The front façade is dominated by a 30-foot tall vertical “airfoil” fin, which is actually a structural column, and is also made of stainless steel.
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The façade is 18th Century baroque, framed by two pillars which support a simple frieze.
The Meseta Purepecha 2008
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The façade is 18th Century baroque, framed by two pillars which support a simple frieze.
The Meseta Purepecha 2008
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The façade is stone with two-sided shake roof ceiling made with "tejamanil," a roofing style characteristic of the region.
The Meseta Purepecha 2008
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For that reason its exterior façade is made of limestone on the ground floor and an innovative terra-cotta cladding on the upper floors.
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The façade is stone with two-sided shake roof ceiling made with "tejamanil," a roofing style characteristic of the region.
The Meseta Purepecha 2008
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If Façade is a psychological drama, The Party will be a darkly comic social melodrama, along the lines of Desperate Housewives.
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The whole world of Façade is pregnant with dramatic possibility.
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