superficies

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noun the purely external aspect of a thing; superficial appearance; -R.W.Speaight
noun outer surface of an area or a body

Borrowing from Latin superficiēs (“top, surface”), from super- (“above, over”) + faciēs (“form, configuration, shape”). Doublet of surface.

As if a woman were a mere colored superficies! — Middlemarch, George Eliot
A line is the limit of a superficies, or length without breadth, or something which has nothing but length. — The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Diogenes Laertius
The superficies was composed of several bits of wood, about the bigness of a die, but some larger than others. — Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, Jonathan Swift

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