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Faux (IPA: ) is a French word for fake. It is often used in English phrases such as faux pearls and faux fur. When manufacturing faux objects or materials, an attempt is usually made to create products which will resemble the imitated items as closely as possible. However, the reverse, i.e., intentionally making them look "faux", is also known, for instance with some faux furs, where it is anticipated that prospective buyers want their fur to be recognizable as faux fur, due to controversy over the use and manufacture of real animal furs. Faux materials are produced in a variety of ways, for example faux marble (such as Terrazzo and Scagliola) is generally made with marble dust in a plaster binder, yielding a hard material that will take a polish. To imitate marbles, porphyry, and other stones, "faux finishes" are often painted using spatterdash, sponging, and feather-streaking techniques on gessoed and painted surfaces.
Fox News as "Faux News" At times the word is purposely used as a disambiguation and purposely misspelled as a way for those who don't appeal to the way Fox the popular American Cable News Channel and Network, presents their news as Faux, because it is meant to be pronounced the same way in which Fox is pronounced, yet colloquially meaning "fake news". It is often a negative connotation of Fox News. This is commonly seen on many popular video sharing websites such as YouTube where people post Fox videos. ---- Faux is also used in English in the borrowed French phrase faux pas (literally false step) as in a misstep or more usually a social gaffe. Could also be used as "fashion faux pas". ---- "Faux" is also the name of trees Faux de Verzy (1 fau, 2 faux). But in this case the word is derived from the Latin "fagus" (see also Dwarf Beech). Finally, Faux is the name of several communes in France: | ||||||||
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