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.
The word 'forge' connects blacksmithing to deception because forging metal requires you to transform raw material into something new—exactly what forgers do with documents, just dishonestly.
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