faux
- adjective
- /foʊ/
- She decorated her home with a faux fur rug that added warmth without using animal products.
It's really cold, but I love a big faux fur jacket.
- It's really cold, but I love a big faux fur jacket.
- So this is like a nice long faux suede jacket.
- Also from River Island, we've got my faux suede western friend jacket.
- OK, but it's also bound up in faux virtue as well.
- There's beautiful illustrations, got these like faux weathered pages.
- And I just am in love with this, like, faux shearling fur.
- And these are high waist faux suede trousers.
- First being this little faux shearling number.
- So this one has kind of like the faux wrap, like Tulip looking hem.
Examples
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And then I've just got on some Zara faux leather trousers.
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It's really cold, but I love a big faux fur jacket.
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Then why the hell would you buy a faux tree?
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So I just added this faux olive tree.
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When you find the perfect rug, the faux fur will look really nice on top of it.
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So this is like a nice long faux suede jacket.
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And these are high waist faux suede trousers.
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And who can miss the Gucci faux fur coat covering it all?
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OK, so these are called the black faux leather knee high heeled boots.
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Have you tried the faux filler lip gloss?
Synonyms
Not real and made to look like something real
Not real and made to trick people
Trying to seem real to deceive people
Made by people to copy something natural or not genuine
Made to look like the real thing to trick people
Not real but looks real and comes before other words
Not real or true, often made to seem true
Seeming to be real but not really there
Made to look like something real but not the original
Made to look like the real thing for practice
Made to seem real to trick people
Pretended to be true to make others believe it
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How Fake
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Etymology
The word faux comes from French faux, which means 'false' and is like the English word false. So faux describes something made to look real but that is 'not genuine', like faux fur or faux leather.