faux

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WordReference English-Spanish Dictionary © 2025:

Principal Translations
InglésEspañol
faux adj (jewels: artificial, paste) (joyas)falso/a adj
  de imitación adj
 It was a faux diamond brooch, but nobody knew.
 Era un broche de diamantes falsos, pero nadie lo sabía.
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WordReference English-Spanish Dictionary © 2025:

Compound Forms:
InglésEspañol
faux fur n (artificial animal pelt)pieles sintéticas nfpl
 This new generation faux fur is almost impossible to tell from the real thing.
  pieles artificiales nfpl
faux pas n (social mistake) (coloquial)papelón nm
 She was terribly embarrassed about the faux pas she made at the dinner party. You made a terrible faux pas by calling the Queen "Lady Windsor"!
 Estaba terriblemente avergonzada del papelón que hizo en la cena.
  (figurado)paso en falso loc nom m
 Estaba terriblemente avergonzada del paso en falso que dio en la cena.
  hacer el ridículo loc verb
 Estaba terriblemente avergonzada por haber hecho el ridículo en la cena.
  (coloquial)metedura de pata loc nom f
Note: Como verbo se utiliza "meter la pata"
 Estaba terriblemente avergonzada de la metedura de pata que hizo en la cena.
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'faux' aparece también en las siguientes entradas:
In the English description:
cardinal sin - howler - misstep
Spanish:
cahuín - inconveniencia - indelicadeza - metedura de pata - polipiel - resbalón - torpeza


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