FACADE


Meaning of FACADE in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ VERB

maintain

Now the wise extra-mural department would doubtless maintain a facade of what appear to be voluntary committees.

Indeed, the need to maintain the facade of politesse is often paramount.

The unsophisticated and desperate ones brazened it out by maintaining a facade of affluence or normalcy by borrowing.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Behind her cheerful facade , she's really a lonely person.

Work is underway to repair the Taj Mahal's marble facade .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

At the same time, she remained a perfectionist, equally determined to present a flawless facade .

Indeed, the need to maintain the facade of politesse is often paramount.

On both their parts, it seems, the good cheer was a facade for the benefit of the other.

The facade of the building at least escaped from rigour.

The facade will be changed by the removal of the old canopy and the installation of an illuminated screen above the entrance.

The garage dominates the facade , although recent exceptions to this rule have emerged in scattered developments.

There was no expression on his face, just the blank skin facade of hunger and tiredness.

Unfortunately he has concealed them behind a flimsy facade of demagoguery.

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