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FAUX
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Dictionary entry overview: What does faux mean?
• FAUX (adjective)
The adjective FAUX has 1 sense:
1. not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article
Familiarity information: FAUX used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article
Synonyms:
fake; false; faux; imitation; simulated
Context example:
a purse of simulated alligator hide
Similar:
artificial; unreal (contrived by art rather than nature)
Context examples
You have a 'faux air' of Nebuchadnezzar in the fields about you, that is certain: your hair reminds me of eagles' feathers; whether your nails are grown like birds' claws or not, I have not yet noticed.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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