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Facade

//fəˈsɑːd// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The face of a building, especially the front view or elevation.

    "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."

  2. 2
    the face or front of a building wordnet
  3. 3
    The face or front (most visible side) of any other thing, such as the prospect of an organ. broadly
  4. 4
    a showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant wordnet
  5. 5
    A deceptive or insincere outward appearance. figuratively
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  1. 6
    An object serving as a simplified interface to a larger body of code, as in the facade pattern.

    "Facades are widely used for tasks like simplifying complex APIs."

Etymology

Borrowed from French façade, from Italian facciata, a derivation of faccia (“front”), from Latin faciēs (“face”); compare face.

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