单词 | potemkin village |
释义 | > as lemmasPotemkin village Potemkin village n. [after Russian Potëmkinskaja derevnja] any of the sham villages said to have been built by Potemkin to give a false impression of prosperity in the Crimea, in advance of Catherine II's visit in 1787. Chiefly figurative.extracted from Potemkinn.< as lemmas |
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