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 →

2) It is borrowed from French, where «faux» means «false». tree →

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 →
• The sofa is covered in faux leather. tree →
• The pillars look like stone, but they are faux marble. tree →
• Wearing a hat at the dinner table was a faux pas in Grandpa's house. tree →
• Faux fur is kinder to animals than real fur. tree →
• The shop sells faux flowers that never die. tree →
• Her bag is faux snakeskin. tree →

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.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «faux» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.