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Definition of Fakes
1. fake [v] - See also: fake
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fakes
Literary usage of Fakes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report (1913)
"SECRET REMEDIES, NOSTRUMS AND fakes. BY WS HUBBARD. ... One of the worst fakes
on the market is made at Jackson and known as "Lung Germine. ..."
2. The Geology of Central and Western Fife and Kinross: Being a Description of by Archibald Geikie, Benjamin Nieve Peach (1900)
"1 Blaes and sulphur-ribs, 0 Black blaes, - 0 Blaes and sulphur balls, 0 Dark
fakes, - - 0 Blaes and sulphur balls, 0 fakes and blaes, - 0 fakes and ..."
3. Southern California Quarterly by Los Angeles County Pioneers of Southern California, Historical Society of Southern California (1904)
"The title of my subject—"Fads and fakes"—is not classical English. ... Fads and
fakes often hunt in couples and when a fad begins to degenerate into a fake ..."
4. Sketch of the Life and Literary Career of Augustus Von Kotzebue: With the by August von Kotzebue (1800)
"For their fakes I pardoned him, and let the matter reft, and fqr their fakes alfo
I now forbear to, men,ti;on. his na,me and place of abode. ..."