Obs. [ad. L. fūcāt-us, pa. pple. of fūcāre to paint, rouge, f. fūcus FUCUS.] Artificially colored, beautified with paint; hence, falsified, disguised, counterfeit.
1531. Elyot, The Boke Named the Gouernour, III. iv. (1883), II. 221–2. In vertue may be nothing fucate or counterfayte.
1583. Stubbes, Anat. Abus., I. (1877), 183. What setting foorth of fucate and deceiuable wares.
1621. Burton, Anat. Mel., III. i. II. iii. Vertue and honesty are great motiues, and giue as faire a lustre as the rest, especially if they be sincere and true, and not fucate, but proceeding from true forme, and an incorrupt Iudgement!
