FACING

In Architecture, that part of the work in a building seen by a spectator; but the term is usually employed to signify a better sort of material which masks an inferior one internally. FAC SIMILE (Lat. facere, to make, and simile, like), expre ed in French by the words fais-semblable, signifies an exact and faithful copy of any writing, engraving, or other work of art. [s. 447]