"genuine fake" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: genuine fakes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} genuine fake (plural genuine fakes)
  1. An imitation of a (usually) valuable object that is so good that it is, to all intents and purposes, identical.

Inflected forms

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