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window dressing

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  • noun The decorative display of retail merchandise in store windows
  • noun The goods and trimmings used in such display
  • noun idiomatic, uncountable A means of creating a deceptively favourable impression of something or someone; something for appearance only.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant
  • noun the decoration of shop windows

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