English-Portuguese translations for facade

• fachada
  Outro chamou-lhe a “cimeira do impasse” com uma fachada de sorrisos forçados.Another called it a summit of impasse with a facade of forced smiles.
  Nas cidades, fachadas monumentais escondem o declínio, a negligência e a pobreza. In the cities, the monumental facades hide decay, neglect and poverty.
  Todavia, a elegância do seu exterior é uma fachada jurídica ao estilo de Potemkin. The report’s nicely polished exterior is, however, a legal ‘Potemkin facade’.

Definition of facade

• The face of a building, especially the front view or elevation
• The face or front of any other thing, such as an organ
• An object serving as a simplified interface to a larger body of code, as in the facade pattern

Related words

• façade
• counterfacade
• façade pattern
• facade pattern
• double facade
• border roof at the side of the façade
• back façade