Back
Back noun - A behind part or surface.
Facade
Facade noun - A forward part or surface.
Usage example: all of the stores in the mall have facades that are in keeping with the style of a 19th-century American village
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
- Getting back to Dave: Due to weird time shit, he occasionally encounters corpses of himself from alternate timelines, and he's more creeped out by this than his stoic facade will let him admit.
Source: Expendable Alternate Universe -
This is why the hero or heroine will sometimes say "Hut, hut, turn your back to the forest and your facade to me".
Source: Literature / Baba Yaga -
The original 19th century townhouse is the facade, and the additions are all in back.
Source: Bigger on the Inside
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