Superficies

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1. Noun

The surface; the exterior part, superficial area, or face of a thing.

2. Noun

Everything on the surface of a piece of ground, or of a building, so closely connected by art or nature as to constitute a part of it, as houses, or other superstructures, fences, trees, vines, etc.

3. Noun

A real right consisting of a grant by a landed proprietor of a piece of ground, bearing a strong resemblance to the long building leases granted by landholders in England, in consideration of a rent, and under reservation of the ownership of the soil.

4. Noun

the purely external aspect of a thing; superficial appearance; "the audience was held by the substance of the play rather than by the superficies of the production" - R.W.Speaight
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