Recent Examples on the WebHardy inhabits the role of Eames, a forger in the film’s complex dream world who can project himself into others’ dreams as a doppelgänger.—Elliott Smith and Chris Bellamy, EW.com, 23 May 2024 Note to forgers: The genuine article weighs 8.5 pounds.—Benjamin Svetkey, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Mar. 2024 Instead of investigating the sellers of Morrisseau fakes, as the RCMP had done, Rybak focused on the forgers, beginning with people like Thompson.—Jordan Michael Smith, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2024 But for years Canadian law enforcement did little to investigate the artist’s claims that forgers were imitating his work.—Jordan Michael Smith, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2024 The Toad in the Hole is a wonderful historical object, akin to an early work by a great painter (or painting forger).—Daniel T. Ksepka, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2023 In actuality, the document originated from a serial forger in a federal prison complex in North Carolina.—Kaelan Deese, Washington Examiner, 14 Aug. 2023 Elmyr de Hory, the most notorious forger of the twentieth century, was our very own Vito Corleone: the first person to transform the criminal experience into something complex, noble, and heroic.—Thomas Bunstead, Harper's Magazine, 21 Feb. 2022 Nazi diaries, forgers at the Vatican:How Delaware became a hotbed for solving art crime.—USA TODAY, 30 May 2023
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Word History
Etymology
Middle English forgere, forgeoure, borrowed from Anglo-French forgeur, forger, from forger "to forge entry 2" + -eur, -er-er entry 2
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