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Mar 21, 2024
This week’s theme
Words made with letters that double as musical notes

This week’s words
adage
accede
efface
facade

facade
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facade

PRONUNCIATION:
(fuh-SAHD)

MEANING:
noun:
1. The front of a building or a side facing a street or a public space.
2. The front part of something.
3. A false or superficial appearance.

ETYMOLOGY:
From French façade, from Italian facciata, from faccia (face), from Latin facia (face), from facies (face). Earliest documented use: 1656.

USAGE:
“But Sarah keeps a dark secret behind her prim and proper facade.”
Linda Lael Miller; Big Sky Secrets; Harlequin; 2013.

See more usage examples of facade in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
In their youth both Herder and Schiller intended to study as surgeons, but Destiny said: "No, there are deeper wounds than those of the body, -- heal the deeper!" and they wrote. -Jean Paul Richter, writer (21 Mar 1763-1825)

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