Usage of Cyrillic letters in place of visually similar (though not necessarily phonetically similar) Roman letters in languages which use the Roman alphabet, to create a more 'Russian' feel for a text.
Adjective
Of or pertaining to faux Cyrillic.
Origin
From faux + Cyrillic.
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