Usage examples (33)

• The audience was held by the substance of the play rather than by the superficies of the production-R.W.Speaight
• Certainly not with a heartfelt froufrou letter (which, on the superficies, is immediately insulting).
• You should have the sugar-box by you, to strew on sugar from time to time, as you eat off the superficies, that is strewed over with sugar.
• Watteau -- Watteau the painter -- not that superficies which is more or less familiar to every hack, be he limner or penman, who dabbles in the eighteenth century.