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Faux

//fəʊ// adj, name, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Fake or artificial. not-comparable

    "He modernizes the faux-archaic “withouten wind, withouten tide” to the more pointed and concrete “without a breeze, without a tide.”"

Adjective
  1. 1
    not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    singular of fauces form-of, singular

    "[…] the faux of the corolla […]"

Etymology

Etymology 1

Unadapted borrowing from French faux. Doublet of false.

Etymology 2

Either a variant of Faulks or borrowed from French Faux.

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