faux

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adj.
Artificial; fake: faux pearls.

[French, from Old French fals. See false.]


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IN BRIEF: adj. - Not genuine or real.

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Faux (play /ˈf/) is a French word for "false".

When manufacturing faux objects or materials, an attempt is often made to create products which will resemble the imitated items as closely as possible. However, some products are intentionally made to look "faux", for example, faux furs made for prospective buyers who want their fur to be recognizable as imitation due to controversy over the use and manufacture of real animal furs.

Faux materials are produced in a variety of ways, for example faux finishes, such as Terrazzo and scagliola, generally made with marble dust in a plaster binder, yielding a hard material that will take a polish. To imitate marbles, porphyry, and other stones, "faux finishes" are often painted using spatterdash, sponging, and feather-streaking techniques on gessoed and painted surfaces.

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - falsk, imiteret

idioms:

  • faux pas    fejltrin, bommert

Nederlands (Dutch)
namaak

Français (French)
adj. - faux pas

idioms:

  • faux pas    faux pas, impair (sout)

Deutsch (German)
adj. - falsch

idioms:

  • faux pas    Fauxpas

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - (γαλλ.) λανθασμένος

idioms:

  • faux pas    κοινωνική απρέπεια, γκάφα

Italiano (Italian)
idioms:

  • faux pas    passo falso

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - falso

idioms:

  • faux pas    gafe (f)

Русский (Russian)
ложный

idioms:

  • faux pas    бестактность

Español (Spanish)
adj. - artificial, falso

idioms:

  • faux pas    metida de pata, paso en falso

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - fel, opassande

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
假的, 人工的

idioms:

  • faux pas    失礼

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 假的, 人工的

idioms:

  • faux pas    失禮

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 인공적인

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 虚僞の

idioms:

  • faux pas    誤ち, 過失, 非礼

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) خاطىء‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮מזויף, מחוקה‬


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Foe (family name)
faux-naïf (Marked by a false show of innocent simplicity)