Forgery

/ˈfɔːrdʒəri/ noun

The crime of creating a fake version of something valuable like money or documents, or the fake item itself.

From Old French 'forgerie', derived from 'forger' (to forge/fabricate), which originally meant to heat and shape metal in a forge, then evolved to mean fabricating anything dishonestly.

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