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artifice1530s, "workmanship, the making of anything by craft or skill," from Middle French artifice "skill, cunning" (14c.), from Latin artificium "a profession, trade, employment, cr [..]
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artificeDeception or trickery. Related: Cindy Sherman. Untitled, Number 228. 1990 Sets, Stories, and Situations Thomas Demand. Room (Zimmer). 1996
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artificen. Trickery.
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artificea clever strategy usually intended to deceive or defraud
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artificetrickery; fraud; stratagem.
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artifice(n) a deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture)
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