1.
[syn: facade, window dressing]
2. the decoration of shop windows;
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
window dressing
n 1: a showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something
unpleasant [syn: facade, window dressing]
2: the decoration of shop windows
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
110 Moby Thesaurus words for "window dressing":
acting, adjunct, adornment, affectation, anteriority, appearance,
arrangement, attitudinizing, bluff, bluffing, bold front,
brave face, brave front, cheating, color, color patterns, coloring,
deception, decor, decoration, delusion, disguise, display,
dissemblance, dissembling, dissimulation, elaboration,
embellishment, emblazonment, emblazonry, embroidery, facade, face,
facet, facia, fakery, faking, false air, false front, false show,
falsity, feigning, feint, flourish, flower arrangement, fore,
forefront, foreground, forehand, foreland, forepart, forequarter,
foreside, foreword, four-flushing, fraud, front, front elevation,
front man, front matter, front page, front view, frontage, frontal,
frontier, frontispiece, furniture arrangement, garnish,
garnishment, garniture, gilt, gloss, head, heading, humbug,
humbuggery, illumination, imposture, lap, masquerade,
meretriciousness, obverse, ornament, ornamentation, ostentation,
outward show, playacting, pose, posing, posture, preface, prefix,
pretense, pretension, pretext, priority, proscenium, put-on,
representation, seeming, semblance, sham, show, simulacrum,
simulation, speciousness, trim, trimming, varnish, veneer