imitation
/ɪmɪˈteɪ̯ʃən/ noun B2- The act of imitating. · a pale imitation· a realistic imitation
- A copy or simulation; something that is not the real thing. · imitation leather
Plural imitations
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In the midst of this growing and important stress the broker became suddenly aware of a high-rolled fringe of golden hair under a nodding canopy of velvet and ostrich tips, an imitation sealskin sacque and a string of beads as large as hickory nuts, ending near the floor with a silver heart.
“Upon my word, Caroline, I should think it more possible to get Pemberley by purchase than by imitation.”
To the girls, who could not listen to their cousin, and who had nothing to do but to wish for an instrument, and examine their own indifferent imitations of china on the mantel-piece, the interval of waiting appeared very long.
A FOX entered the house of an actor and, rummaging through all his properties, came upon a Mask, an admirable imitation of a human head.
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