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facade



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[fuh-sahd, fa-] 

fa 薩德



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–noun 

1. Architecture. 

a. the front of a building, esp. an imposing or decorative one. 

b. any side of a building facing a public way or space and finished accordingly. 

 

2. a superficial appearance or illusion of something: They managed somehow to maintain a facade of wealth.  



Also, fa[ç]ade.





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fa[ç]ade, facade (n.)  

 

Spell it either with or without the [cedilla]. Pronounce it fuh-SAHD. 





　

The Dante Ferretti-designed catwalk features three giant golden lions bursting from a gauzy (薄紗) white screen that covers the fest palazzo facade. 



The bold setpiece symbolizes the main Venice venue leap toward a new era, with refurbishment and reconstruction [imminent].





　 

Peter Weir's haunting and evocative mystery is set in the Australia of 1900, a mystical place where the British have attempted to [impose] their Christian culture with such tweedy refinements as a girls' boarding school. 



After gauzily-photographed, nicely [under]played scenes of the girls' budding sexuality being restrained in Victorian corsets, the [up]tight headmistress (Rachel Roberts) takes them on a Valentine's Day picnic into the countryside, and several of the girls, led by the lovely Miranda (Anne Lambert) decide to explore a nearby volcanic rock [formation]. 



It's a desolate, primitive, vaguely menacing place, where one can almost feel the presence of ancient pagan spirits. Something — and there is an unspoken but palpable emphasis [on] the inherent carnality of the place — draws four of the girls to explore the rock. 



carnal

–adjective 

1. pertaining to or characterized by the flesh or the body, its passions and appetites; sensual: carnal [pleasures]. 

2. not spiritual; merely human; temporal; worldly: a man of [secular], rather carnal, leanings. 





Three never return. No one ever finds out why. The [re]percussions for the school are tragic, and of course Roberts reacts with near-crazed anger, but what really happened? Weir gives enough clues to suggest any [number] of explanations, both physical and supernatural.





facade [fuh-sahd]

mezzanine

parochial 

ecumenical gentrification

tormentor 

marquee



shack

She discovers that Carl is shacked [up] with a beautiful 

barrack

All the callers-in want to do is barrack him [about] his support, started decades earlier, for Hindley's parole.

billet

Howard Vernon plays Von Ebrennae, a cultured Nazi [officer] who is billeted in this [household].

bunker

a [coal] bunker.  

to bunker an army's [defenses].  



cubicle

mural

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