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Window dressing

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The decorative display of retail merchandise in store windows; the goods and trimmings used in such a display. countable, uncountable

    "The linen-draper at the corner under the town clock was divided between keeping an eye on his apprentices to see that they did not spar with yard sticks, and mentally criticising the ludicrous and meretricious window-dressing of his next-door neighbour."

  2. 2
    the decoration of shop windows wordnet
  3. 3
    The process, skill or task of creating such a display. uncountable

    "Such days as there was no window-dressing there was a mighty carrying and lifting of blocks and bales of goods into piles and stacks."

  4. 4
    a showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant wordnet
  5. 5
    A means of creating a deceptively favourable impression of something or someone; something for appearance only. figuratively, uncountable

    "These latest modifications are mere window dressing; the same problems remain."

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