cache-misère
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
cache-misère m (plural cache-misères)
- outer garment that is used to hide dilapidated clothes
- anything that is used to disguise a poor state of affairs; a Potemkin village
Further reading[edit]
- “cache-misère”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.