façade

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She also put money into sidewalks and a new façade at the front of her building, she said.

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  1. noun The face of a building, especially the principal face.
  2. noun An artificial or deceptive front: ideological slogans that were a façade for geopolitical power struggles.

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  • And, by now, the rest of us have, too; when, in the 1980s, a "new" Times Square without a façade of electronic advertising was proposed, the hue and cry (including from respected architects and designers) killed the proposal swiftly. —  Design Observer: Main Posts
  • In other words, the two-state solution has become a façade, a fiction. —  Recent articles from SocialistWorker.org
  • There's still more available from the city -- the Coxes are in line for a façade grant to complete refurbishing of the damaged marquee and to replace tiles at the entry, but again, that's money that's not available until after the project's initial completion. —  North Coast Journal Comments
  • A chair does not necessarily design make, and a bas-relief in molded resin that looks like abstract expressionism could actually be the germ of a new mass-produced design for a building façade. —  SEEDMAGAZINE.COM
  • She also put money into sidewalks and a new façade at the front of her building, she said. —  The Observer-Dispatch Home RSS
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  1. French, from Italian facciata, from faccia, face, from Vulgar Latin *facia, from Latin faciēs; see dhē- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = D. G. Danish façade, from French façade, from Italian facciata, the front of a building (see faciata, faciate), from faccia = French face, from Latin facies, the face: see face.
 

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