Definition of "fakement" []

• Any act of deceit, fraud, swindling, or thieving; the act of begging under false pretenses; also, a device by which fraud is effected. (noun)
• Any peculiar or artistic production or piece of workmanship. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "When the tying-up fakement was over everything went off first-rate."
• "Mr. Falkland ‘ll stand a farm, you may be sure, for this little fakement.’"
• "For some time past, it seems, dad had been grumbling about being left to himself so much, and, except this last fakement, not having anything to do with the road work."