facade

English borrowed 'facade' from French façade, which came from Italian facciata, a word built from faccia meaning 'front.' That Italian word traces back to Latin faciēs, meaning 'face.'

The facts here don't describe a shift in meaning — the word has consistently pointed to the 'front' or 'face' of something, from Latin through Italian and French into English.

It's a cousin of 'face' itself, since both descend from the Latin faciēs.