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What does window dressing mean?

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Noun
  1. The decorative display of retail merchandise in store windows; the goods and trimmings used in such a display.
  2. (uncountable) The process, skill or task of creating such a display.
  3. (idiomatic, uncountable) A means of creating a deceptively favourable impression of something or someone; something for appearance only.
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If only consultative, the lay voice will remain mostly window dressing for clerical decision makers.
He said the police initiative did not appear to be window dressing and the chamber felt it was a serious move to clamp down on crime.
Some poets in Tottel's text did employ religious vocabulary as rhetorical window dressing.
Or was it, as his rivals claim, merely window dressing designed to conceal as well as reveal?
It would be easy to conclude that his politics were merely window dressing for mayhem.
My impression of Xena from the TV days was of a frivolous show with attractive window dressing.

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