All 7 Uses of
facade
in
Interview with the Vampire
- I heard the staccato of Claudia's steps as she rushed beside me, never once asking me to slacken my pace; and she stood finally, her face infinitely patient, looking up at me in a dark and narrow sheet where a few old slope-roofed French houses remained among the Spanish facades, ancient little houses, the plaster blistered from the moldering brick beneath.†
Part 1facades = faces or outward appearances
- The great facade of the cathedral rose in a dark mass opposite the square, but the doors were open and I could see a soft, flickering light within.†
Part 1 *facade = face or outward appearance
- And at the same moment I could hear a sound to my left, something scraping, scratching against the facade of the town house.†
Part 1
- Hurricanes, floods, fevers, the plague-and the damp of the Louisiana climate itself worked tirelessly on every hewn plank or stone facade, so that New Orleans seemed at all times like a dream in the imagination of her striving populace, a dream held intact at every second by a tenacious, though unconscious, collective will.†
Part 3
- I'd passed its long facade a thousand times, wishing that I could live as a mortal man for one day to move through those many rooms and see those many magnificent paintings.†
Part 3
- We had turned off the avenue and I could see ahead of me the long row of double columns on the facade of the Royal Museum.†
Part 3
- In the Rue Royale, where I took Armand past tourists and antique shops and the bright-lit entrances of fashionable restaurants, I was astonished to discover the town house where Lestat and Claudia and I had made our home, the facade little changed by fresh plaster and whatever repairs had been done within.†
Part 4
Definition:
face or outward appearance -- often referring to something that is not genuine
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.