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- adjective Of or pertaining to Faux Cyrillic.
- proper noun Usage of
Cyrillic letters in place of visibly similar (though not necessarily phonetically similar)Roman letters in languages which use the Roman alphabet, to create a more 'Russian ' feel for a text.
Etymologies
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From Cyrillic + faux, French for false.
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