ersatz

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Ersatz Georgian manors sit next to re-created country cottages next to mock Industrial Age warehouses, now filled with low-rise luxury flats — and a nursing home.

From Washington Post • May 2, 2023

Ersatz military gear — camouflage jackets, old boots, black wool hats and bandannas — were much in evidence back then, as were the flags of long-dead and, we all assumed, safely buried causes.

From New York Times • Jan. 7, 2021

Ersatz city centres are multiplying now partly because it takes about this long after a financial crisis to begin a big project.

From Economist • Apr. 27, 2016

Ersatz champagne with the “Soviet” brand name has been produced since 1937, when the brand was first introduced at the height of Joseph Stalin’s purges.

From The Guardian • Jan. 4, 2016

To his disgust he was put in the 10th Ersatz Division, and now, after his soldier life, wants to work in a British shipyard.

From From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 by Gibbs, Philip