Word of the Day: Ruritania
An example from a review of "The Regime" starring Kate Winslett
(ˌrurɪˈteiniə, ˈrurɪˌtei-)
NOUN
1. a mythical, romantic kingdom conceived as the setting for a fairy tale, costume drama, comic operetta, or the like
2. facetious any small, little-known country or region considered remote, backward, or exotic
“The Regime” was filmed almost entirely in Vienna, the grandiloquent capital of a lost empire, and the show has witty elements of Ruritania. The scenes in Elena’s gilded palace were shot in the Schönbrunn Palace, to which the showrunners have added some weird cupolas, making it look rather like the Palace of the People in Bucharest, built at huge cost by Ceausescu and covering nearly 4 million square feet.
| Steven Erlanger, ‘The Regime’ and the Dictators I Have Known