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false name

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Noun1.false name - a name that has been assumed temporarily
alias, assumed name
name - a language unit by which a person or thing is known; "his name really is George Washington"; "those are two names for the same thing"


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Because I have friends - acquaintances at least - in the world, from whom I desire my present abode to be concealed; and as they might see the picture, and might possibly recognise the style in spite of the false initials I have put in the corner, I take the precaution to give a false name to the place also, in order to put them on a wrong scent, if they should attempt to trace me out by it.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Bronte, Anne View in context
He roused in my mind--I can't tell how or why--an angry sense of the indignity that he had put upon his wife in marrying her under a false name.
Law and the Lady by Collins, Wilkie View in context
But Mercy was not vile enough to marry him under her false character, and in her false name.
The New Magdalen by Collins, Wilkie View in context
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