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Faux (pronounced /ˈfoʊ/, like "foe") is a French word for false or fake. It is often used in English phrases such as faux pearls and faux fur. Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 151 languages. ...

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 and scagliola, 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. Faux finishing or faux marbling is the preparation and finishing of a surface to imitate the appearance of polished marble. ... Terrazzo with adapted Native-American design at the Hoover Dam Terrazzo is a faux-marble flooring or countertopping material. ... Scagliola (from the Italian scaglia, meaning chips) is a technique for producing plasterwork columns, sculptures, and other architectural elements that resemble marble. ... For other uses, see Marble (disambiguation). ... A piece of porphyry Porphyry is a variety of igneous rock consisting of large-grained crystals, such as feldspar or quartz, dispersed in a fine-grained feldspathic matrix or groundmass. ... Gesso is the Italian word for chalk (akin to the Greek word gypsum), and is a powdered form of the mineral calcium carbonate used in art. ...

See also

• Faux painting
• Faux chateau
• Faux finishing - A sort of painting to make something look like stone or marble.
• Faux leather
• Faux pas (literally false step) as in a misstep or more usually a social gaffe
• fashion faux pas
• Faux de Verzy (1 fau, 2 faux). A species of tree, but derived from the Latin "fagus" (see also Dwarf Beech)

Faux Painting or Faux Finishing are terms used to describe a wide range of Decorative Painting techniques. ... Categories: Buildings and structures stubs | House types ... Faux finishing or faux marbling is the preparation and finishing of a surface to imitate the appearance of polished marble. ... Faux Pas redirects here. ... Cultivar Group Fagus sylvaticaTortuosa Group The Dwarf Beech, Fagus sylvatica Tortuosa Group, is a rare Cultivar Group of the European Beech with less than 1500 older specimen in Europe. ...

Communes in France

• Faux, Ardennes, in the Ardennes département
• Faux, Dordogne, in the Dordogne département
• Faux-Fresnay, in the Marne département
• Faux-la-Montagne, in the Creuse département
• Faux-Mazuras, in the Creuse département
• Faux-Vésigneul, in the Marne département
• Faux-Villecerf, in the Aube département

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