text: # 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.
  