||Fa`çade" (f&adot;`s&adot;d" or f&adot;`sād"), n. [F., fr. It. facciata, fr. faccia face, L. facies. See Face.] (Arch.) The front of a building; esp., the principal front, having some architectural pretensions. Thus a church is said to have its façade unfinished, though the interior may be in use.

• The face of a building, especially the front.
  
• A deceptive outward appearance.
  

• (Architecture): The face of a building, especially the front view or elevation.
       
• 1865: 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
       
• 1880: Like so many of the finest churches, 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
  
• A deceptive outward appearance.
  
• (Organ building): the prospect
  
  Dutch
• façade (of a building)
  
• façade (deceptive outward appearance)
  
  French
• façade (of a building)
  
• façade (deceptive outward appearance)