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# faux

«faux» in Mova's school dictionary: **fake or made to look like the real thing, used mostly for…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (faux)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Faux means fake or made to look like the real thing, used mostly for materials such as fur, leather or marble. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/faux/#m1)

2) It is borrowed from French, where «faux» means «false». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/faux/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and shopping, «faux fur» and «faux leather» are made without real animals. In design, a «faux finish» makes paint look like wood or stone. «Faux pas» (from French) means an embarrassing mistake in manners. Common phrases: «faux fur», «faux leather», «faux pas», «faux marble».

### examples

- My winter coat has a faux fur hood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/faux/#x1)
- The sofa is covered in faux leather. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/faux/#x2)
- The pillars look like stone, but they are faux marble. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/faux/#x3)
- Wearing a hat at the dinner table was a faux pas in Grandpa's house. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/faux/#x4)
- Faux fur is kinder to animals than real fur. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/faux/#x5)
- The shop sells faux flowers that never die. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/faux/#x6)
- Her bag is faux snakeskin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/faux/#x7)

### note

Say «foe» (the x is silent), so it sounds just like «foe» (enemy). It comes before the noun: «faux fur». In French it is an ordinary word for «false»; in English it is used mainly for fashion and decoration. «Faux pas» is said foe-PAH; plural is also «faux pas».

### In the corpora

- [Faux amis, false friends, are French words that look like English words but mean something different.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/35-false-friends/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «faux» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/faux/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.