fakement

noun

noun

Etymology From fake + -ment.

Archaic A forgery; something faked.

Such a ‘fakement,’ professionally filled up and put into the hands of an experienced lurker, will bring the ‘amanuensis,’ or ‘screever,’ two guineas at least, and the proceeds of such an expedition have in many cases averaged 60l. per week.1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861:

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