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faux
/foʊ/
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What does faux mean?
adjective
- Fake or artificial.
noun
- singular of fauces
proper noun
- A surname.
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/foʊ/
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A sledging cook will often make a disagreeable faux pas by extinguishing the primus in the preparation of hoosh.
I have interrogated my brother with regard to the information which you desire on the subject of the Faux family.
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Les faux témoignages des enfants devant la justice.
A faux pas is where the organizer has "slipped" on his job; lack of tact implies in part a rigid organizing energy, neither plastic nor versatile enough.
Even if we suppose two provinces (one on each side) to be of equal value, we shall always lose more by the one which the enemy takes from us than we can gain by the one we take, because a number of our forces become to a certain extent like faux frais, non-effective.