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Faux (like "foe") is a French
French language

French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries....
 word for false or fake. It is often used in English phrases such as faux pearls, faux fur, faux pas and faux news.

When manufacturing faux objects or materials, an attempt is often made to create products which will resemble the imitated items as closely as possible. However, some products are intentionally made to look "faux", for example, faux furs made for prospective buyers who want their fur to be recognizable as imitation due to controversy over the use and manufacture of real animal furs.

Faux materials are produced in a variety of ways, for example faux finishes, such as Terrazzo
Terrazzo

Terrazzo is a faux-marble flooring or countertopping material....
 and scagliola
Scagliola

Scagliola , is a technique for producing stucco columns, sculptures, and other architecture elements that resemble marble. The Scagliola technique came into fashion in 17th century Tuscany as an effective substitute for costly marble inlays, the pietra dura works created for the Medici family in Florence....
, generally made with marble dust in a plaster binder, yielding a hard material that will take a polish.






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Faux (like "foe") is a French
French language

French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries....
 word for false or fake. It is often used in English phrases such as faux pearls, faux fur, faux pas and faux news.

When manufacturing faux objects or materials, an attempt is often made to create products which will resemble the imitated items as closely as possible. However, some products are intentionally made to look "faux", for example, faux furs made for prospective buyers who want their fur to be recognizable as imitation due to controversy over the use and manufacture of real animal furs.

Faux materials are produced in a variety of ways, for example faux finishes, such as Terrazzo
Terrazzo

Terrazzo is a faux-marble flooring or countertopping material....
 and scagliola
Scagliola

Scagliola , is a technique for producing stucco columns, sculptures, and other architecture elements that resemble marble. The Scagliola technique came into fashion in 17th century Tuscany as an effective substitute for costly marble inlays, the pietra dura works created for the Medici family in Florence....
, generally made with marble dust in a plaster binder, yielding a hard material that will take a polish. To imitate marble
Marble

Marble is a nonfoliated metamorphic rock resulting from the metamorphism of limestone, composed mostly of calcite . It is extensively used for Marble sculpture, as a architecture material, and in many other applications....
s, porphyry
Porphyry (geology)

Porphyry is a variety of igneous Rock consisting of large-grained crystals, such as feldspar or quartz, dispersed in a fine-grained feldspar Matrix or groundmass....
, and other stones, "faux finishes" are often painted using spatterdash, sponging, and feather-streaking techniques on gessoed
Gesso

Gesso ['dso] is the Italian language word for "Board chalk" , and is a powdered form of the mineral calcium carbonate used in art. Gesso was traditionally mixed with animal glue, usually rabbit-skin glue, to use as an absorbent primer coat for panel painting with tempera paints....
 and painted surfaces.

See also

  • Faux painting
    Faux painting

    Faux painting or Faux finishing are terms used to describe a wide range of decorative painting techniques. From the French word for "fake", faux painting began as a form of replicating materials such as marble and wood with paint, but has come to encompass many other decorative finishes for walls and furniture....
  • Faux chateau
  • Faux finishing - A sort of painting to make something look like stone or marble.
  • Faux pas
    Faux pas

    A faux pas is a violation of accepted social rules . Faux pas vary widely from culture to culture, and what is considered good manners in one culture can be considered a faux pas in another....
     (literally false step) as in a misstep or more usually a social gaffe
  • Faux News
    Fox News Channel controversies

    Critics and some observers of the Fox News Channel have accused the network of unethical journalistic conduct, particularly regarding an alleged bias favoring the Right-wing politics and the Republican Party ....
     - A controversial name given to Fox News for accusations of media bias by other media outlets.

Communes in France

  • Faux, Ardennes
    Faux, Ardennes

    Faux is a Communes of the Ardennes department in the Ardennes Departments of France in northern France....
    , in the Ardennes département
  • Faux, Dordogne
    Faux, Dordogne

    Faux is a Communes of France in the Dordogne Departments of France in Aquitaine in southwestern France....
    , in the Dordogne département
  • Faux-Fresnay
    Faux-Fresnay

    Faux-Fresnay is a Communes of France in the Marne Departments of France in northeastern France....
    , in the Marne département
  • Faux-la-Montagne
    Faux-la-Montagne

    Faux-la-Montagne is a Communes of the Creuse department in the Creuse Departments of France in central France....
    , in the Creuse département
  • Faux-Mazuras
    Faux-Mazuras

    Faux-Mazuras is a communes of France in the Creuse departments of France of the Limousin region of central France....
    , in the Creuse département
  • Faux-Vésigneul
    Faux-Vésigneul

    Faux-V?signeul is a Communes of France in the Marne Departments of France in northeastern France....
    , in the Marne département
  • Faux-Villecerf
    Faux-Villecerf

    Faux-Villecerf is a Communes of France in the Aube Departments of France in north-central France....
    , in the Aube département


Faux is also a rare last name, of British origin. As a name, it is often pronounced "Forks", or "Foe".