counterfeits

"Not quite so soft," I said, gaining confidence and handling the crab in turn, for it was not so fleshy feeling as the back part of hermit crabs, which we called counterfeits in our part of the world.

Devon Boys A Tale of the North Shore George Manville Fenn 1870

Detecting the counterfeits is difficult, she said, and consumers should make sure the goods they buy have proper NHL approved labels and the special hologram that verifies authenticity.

NHL, police warn of fake memorabilia 2000

Why did the author put quotation marks around the word counterfeits?

Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

Why did the author put quotation marks around the word counterfeits?

Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Hubertus 2009

Why did the author put quotation marks around the word counterfeits?

Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

"It can take a minute to decipher some counterfeits, which is scary," said Ms. Woods.

The Lighter Side of Counterfeiting Puts Zippo in a Fix Barry Newman 2011

Another is that brand-name drug companies, unfortunately, are exploiting public fear of fakes to reinforce patent monopolies -- in some cases demanding public officials treat generic competitor drugs as "counterfeits" that may infringe patents and should be subject to the same aggressive seize-and-destroy tactics applied to fake medicines.

Stop Fakes, Not Generics 2009

The acts of unquestioned belief depicted as ghosts and supernatural machinery merely call attention to themselves as "counterfeits," rather than as true signs rendered current and legitimate by faith.

Introduction: Gothic Romance as Visual Technology 2005

Coleridge says elsewhere, such poems are "counterfeits"

Introduction: Gothic Romance as Visual Technology 2005

Hogle argued that the Gothic Romance dramatized the post-modern condition of simulation, of ghostly 'counterfeits' or hollowed-out signs; Castle pointed out how the experience of simulation was quickly troped as a phantasmagoria (originally a magic-lantern ghost show); while Crary argued that modern patterns of consumption and spectatorship begin with the early-nineteenth century privileging of the sovereign observer.

Article Abstracts 2005