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noun 
  1. The face of a building, especially the front.
    • 2005, w:Peter Brandvold, Peter Brandvold, "Ghost Colts", in Robert J. Randisi (ed.), Lone Star Law,http://books.google.com/books?id=oD_1h7qBndoC</sup> Simon and Schuster, ISBN 1416514597, page 179,
    • : Eight or so gunmen stood shoulder to shoulder in the gray-white trail before the barn, firing into the saloon's burning, bullet-pocked .
      1. (figurative) A deceptive outward appearance.
Etymology: (term, faíade, lang=fr), from (term, facciata), a derivation of (term, faccia, , front), from (term, facies, , face); compare (term, face)


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