as in facades
a deceptively attractive external appearance
the crime-does-not-pay moralizing is just window dressing for nasty hard-boiled stories
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But the designers shift the location of windows within the same interior spaces to create a more varied expression on the facades.—
Edward Keegan,
Chicago Tribune,
23 Mar. 2025 -
If scaled up, such solar cells could prove revolutionary for solar power generation in cities where facades of tall skyscrapers offer large amounts of surface area.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Mar. 2025
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“Window dressings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/window%20dressings. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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