façade
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Designed to exude a feeling of “understated luxury,” the well-appointed abode has been designed with only the most high-caliber materials, starting with its limestone facade, which blends beautifully with the greenery that surrounds it.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 10, 2026
On the facade of one building, giant portraits of the Islamic republic's founder, Ruhollah Khomeini, and his successor Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, killed on the first day of the war, overlook a field of ruins.
From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026
“Brats” is very much so “about the public facade of friendship,” notes McCarthy.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026
Demolition work has begun on the remaining facade of a historic Glasgow building wrecked by a fire.
From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026
The building in the trees with its ornate facade lit by floodlights might have been an opera house.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
Vocabulary lists containing façade
The Great Gatsby
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The Lightning Thief
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