All 9 Uses of
facade
in
Angels & Demons
- It had a red brick facade, an ornate balustrade, and sat framed by sculpted symmetrical hedges.†
Chpt 8 *
- The marble facade blazed like fire in the afternoon sun.†
Chpt 33-34
- Remove a government's facade of infallibility, and you remove its people's faith.†
Chpt 45-46
- The eleventh-century stone aerie was made even more clumsy by the tower of scaffolding covering the facade.†
Chpt 63-64
- Dead center of each pyramid, embedded in their anterior facades, were gold medallions …. medallions like few Langdon had ever seen …. perfect ellipses.†
Chpt 65-66
- Feeling a shimmer of hope, Langdon circumnavigated the fountain one more time and studied all four facades of the obelisk.†
Chpt 105-106
- The only lights on the castle were exterior floods illuminating the facade.†
Chpt 105-106
- Langdon squinted, trying to find refuge behind the facade's enormous columns, but the light came from all directions.†
Chpt 115-116
- And there, having just stepped onto the sacred Papal Balcony located in the exact center of the towering facade, Camerlegno Carlo Ventresca stood with his arms raised to the heavens.†
Chpt 133-134
Definition:
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(facade) face or outward appearance -- often referring to something that is not genuineeditor's notes: Often referring to a false face presented by a person. Buildings often have false facades; e.g., a building might have a layer of 1/4" brick, but not really be a brick building. This is why the term is used for the false appearance a person presents.