In romance languages, nomen à clef or nomen à clé ([nomen‿a kle], French for "name with a key"), is a name describing a real person, behind a façade of fiction.
[1] "Key" in this context means a table one can use to swap out the names.
It is the nomenclature complement of the roman à clef.
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