adjective
artificial or imitation; fake: a brooch with faux pearls.
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faux
from Fr. faux "false" (see false). Used with English words at least since 1676 (Etheredge). Used by itself, with French pronunciation, from 1980s to mean "fake."
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Faux
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Example sentences
Yes, that weed popping up out of her faux turf carpet is a real dandelion, deliberately planted.
Friends built two faux castle turrets over the bunker's escape hatches.
They slapped on a double-height entry with a kind of faux-tent top.
The trains are flooded with illegal faux guides, who.
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