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forgery
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The Hound of Rowan
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Many works now hanging in museums are clever forgeries—the stolen paintings in the newspapers are merely to divert Rowan's attention from other thefts that have gone undetected.... There are whispers of a matchless child—a child whose arrival they have foreseen and whose help they require to free the Demon.†
Chpt 17

forgeries = things that are represented as real even though they are fake; or the making of such fake items
Two of the four paintings are actually forgeries—the Enemy has already stolen them.†
Chpt 18 *
If they wanted to hide the fact that some paintings were stolen, why wouldn't they just replace all of them with forgeries?†
Chpt 18
It's a good point, but the forgeries needed to be real—made by hand, that is.†
Chpt 18
Not too many people can forge a Rembrandt or a Vermeer, so they would only be able to leave behind forgeries for a few," said David.†
Chpt 18

Definitions:

(1) (forgery)
something that is represented as real even though it is a fake; or the making of such a fake item
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)