# facade

## Anglais

### Nom commun

facade \fə.ˈsɑːd\

* (Architecture) Façade (d’un bâtiment).
   * 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. — (James Fergusson, A History of Architecture in All Countries, 1865.)
   * 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. — (Charles Eliot Norton, Historical Studies of Church-Building in the Middle Ages, 1880)
   * 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.” — (Robert W. Chambers, The Youger Set, chapitre V, D. Appleton & Compagny, New York (État de New-York))
* (Par extension) Côté le plus visible d’un objet.
   * An organ facade.
* (Sens figuré) Façade, apparence trompeuse qu’une personne se donne.

**Variantes orthographiques**

* façade (graphie française)

**Synonymes**

* face
* front
* frontage
* appearance
* cover
* front
* guise
* pretence

**Dérivés**

* facade patern

### Prononciation

* \fə.ˈsɑːd\

## Danois

### Nom commun

facade neutre

* Façade.
