Potemkin village
noun
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.
Origin
Early 20th century. After Russian Potëmkinskaja derevnja.
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