See Also: Potemkin village(dictionary)
Potemkin, Grigory (Aleksandrovich)(encyclopedia)
village(dictionary)
Village Tap(tourism)
Village Hut(tourism)
village(dictionary)
Green Cay Village(tourism)
Village du mas blanc(tourism)
Garden Village(tourism)
Le Village Kabyle(tourism)

NERC (iou) and Potemkin village (iou)


NERC (iou)



NERC abbreviation.
Natural Environment Research Council.

Potemkin village (iou)



Potemkin village noun phr. M20.

Any of a number of sham villages reputedly built on Potemkin's orders for Catherine II's tour of the Crimea in 1787; transf. any sham or unreal thing.
A. Hutschnecker Their promises were delusions and their beautiful homes Potemkin villages.