faux

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   made in imitation of something else; artificial or not genuine

   The jacket had a soft faux-fur collar.

2. 2
   adj

   appearing to be a particular kind of thing while lacking its real character

   His faux concern disappeared as soon as the cameras left.

An unadapted borrowing from French faux ('false'), from Old French fals, ultimately Latin falsus, the past participle of fallere ('to deceive'). English commonly uses faux before another noun for an imitation material, style, or attitude.

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