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    [Noun]  | "Po*tem*kin village" | \ pə-ˈtem(p)-kən- \


    1: an impressive facade or show designed to hide an undesirable fact or condition


    Origin: 1904 ;

     Grigori Potëmkin, who supposedly built impressive fake villages along a route Catherine the Great was to travel;

    [Noun]  | "Potemkin villages" 


    1: as in Trojan horses, fig leafs;


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