词汇 | false front |
词源 | false front. Gay Nineties merchants often built the facades of their stores in such a way as to give the appearance of greater size, which they thought appropriate in an era of great prosper- ity. But in time these false fronts became the symbol of pretense or sham that the expression means today. |
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