Definition of "succedaneum" []

• A substitute. (noun)

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• "Scott renders “pepper” (Lane i. 8) and it forms a clean succedaneum for one of the uncleanest articles of civilisation, the sponge."
• "“Líf,” a succedaneum for the unclean sponge, not unknown in the “Turkish Baths” of London."
• "The order is peculiarly Moslem, in fact the succedaneum for the"