faux

adj

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. 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.”

name

Etymology: Either a variant of Faulks or borrowed from French Faux.

1. A surname.

noun

1. 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.”