potemkin village

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الإنجليزية - التركية
Potemkin köy
الإنجليزية - الإنجليزية
Any false construct devised to disguise a shortcoming or improve appearances
Something that appears elaborate and impressive but in actual fact lacks substance: "the Potemkin village of this country's borrowed prosperity" (Lewis H. Lapham)
Potemkin villages
plural form of Potemkin village
potemkin village

    الواصلة

    Po·tem·kin vil·lage

    التركية النطق

    pıtemkîn vîlıc

    النطق

    /pəˈtemkən ˈvələʤ/ /pəˈtɛmkɪn ˈvɪləʤ/

    علم أصول الكلمات

    () Purportedly named for fake settlements erected at the direction of Russian minister Grigori Alexsandrovich Potemkin to fool Empress Catherine II during her visit to Crimea in 1787.
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