- 1the front of a building a classical facade
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- 2[usually singular] the way that someone or something appears to be, which is different from the way someone or something really is She managed to maintain a facade of indifference. They seem happy together, but it's all a facade. Squalor and poverty lay behind the city's glittering facade.
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