Facade

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mid 17th century: from French façade, from face ‘face’, on the pattern of Italian facciata .

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From French façade, from Italian facciata, a derivation of faccia(“front”), from Latin faciēs(“face”); compare face.

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facade (n.)

1650s, "front of a building," from French façade (16c.), from Italian facciata "the front of a building," from faccia "face," from Vulgar Latin *facia (see face (n.)). Figurative use by 1845.