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faux

adj
/fəʊ/UK/foʊ/US/fɔ/

Etymology

Etymology tree Latin fallō Latin falsus Old French fals Middle French faulx French fauxubor. English faux Unadapted borrowing from French faux. Doublet of false.

  1. borrowed from Faux

Definitions

  1. Fake or artificial.

    • He modernizes the faux-archaic “withouten wind, withouten tide” to the more pointed and concrete “without a breeze, without a tide.”
    • Because mahoganies yield a supple fine-grained wood, they are often used as veneer wood. With proper technique and graining tools, all of these variations can be produced in faux wood.
    • Run grapes, either frozen, chilled, or room temperature, through your juicer for an incredible grape faux wine.

  2. singular of fauces

    • […] the faux of the corolla […]
    • […] the small door on the right of it is the faux, which also opens upon the peristyle at its further extremity.

  3. A surname.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for faux. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA