Definition of "façade"

If Euston is not typically English, St. Pancras is. Its façade is a nightmare of improbable Gothic. It is fairly plastered with the aesthetic ideals of 1868, and the only beautiful thing about it is Barlow's roof. It is haunted by the stuffier kind of ghost. Yet there is something about the ordered whole of St. Pancras that would make demolition a terrible pity.

1941 August, C. Hamilton Ellis, “The English Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 358

he wanted to know who she was deep down inside, the real Penny behind the pleasant, people-pleasing façade, as was her fate as a woman and mother

2019, Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other, Penguin Books (2020), page 291