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单词 screen facade
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screen facade
screen facade n. Architecture (a) a wall defining a courtyard in front of a building or masking its facade; = sense 7a (obsolete); (b) a facade that masks the form or dimensions of the building behind it by exceeding it in height or width; cf. sense 7b.
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1831 Libr. Fine Arts Apr. 195 Another very pleasing example of a screen façade is that of Melbourne House, Whitehall.
1855 J. Fergusson Illustr. Handbk. Archit. II. v. i. 748 It is not known whether the original design comprised two towers, like those of the great French cathedrals, or was intended to terminate with the flat screen façade.
1857 T. T. Bury Rudimentary Archit. (ed. 4) xviii. 173 The little screen façade which he [sc. Henry Holland] added to Melbourne House, Whitehall, is a most charming composition.
1989 A. M. Lannoo tr. F. Bonneure Art Guide Bruges 30 Its brick screen façade has been decorated with an octogonal [sic] wind dial.
2011 J. Hendrix Archit. as Cosmol. iii. 82 It is a screen façade, as at Wells or Exeter, though there is no close at Lincoln.
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