Passing_off

An Agent acts in such a way as to cause others to think that an Item is an instance of a particular kind of Simulated_entity. He had, under the name of Armitage, passed her off as a member of one of the most distinguished families of the capital. He undoubtedly believes you are the impostor who palmed himself off at Bar Harbor as the Baron von Kissel. Knowing his likeness to the family of Lord Polperro she palmed him off on them as a distant relative.