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fabric

[fab-rik]

noun

  1. a cloth made by weaving, knitting, or felting fibers.

    woolen fabrics.

  2. the texture of the woven, knitted, or felted material.

    cloth of a soft, pliant fabric.

  3. framework; structure.

    the fabric of society.

  4. a building; edifice.

  5. the method of construction.

  6. the act of constructing, especially of a church building.

  7. the maintenance of such a building.

  8. Petrography.the spatial arrangement and orientation of the constituents of a rock.



fabric

/ ˈæɪ /

noun

  1. any cloth made from yarn or fibres by weaving, knitting, felting, etc

  2. the texture of a cloth

  3. a structure or framework

    the fabric of society

  4. a style or method of construction

  5. rarea building

  6. the texture, arrangement, and orientation of the constituents of a rock

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of fabric1

1475–85; (< Middle French fabrique ) < Latin fabrica craft, especially metalworking or building, workshop. See forge 1
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of fabric1

C15: from Latin fabrica workshop, from faber craftsman
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Around the same time, the bathing suit business took off, as war-time fabric rationing lifted and the culture shifted to allow less modesty and more playful expression.

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The narratives of those journeys are woven into the fabric of Los Angeles.

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Political leaders and railroad officials insisted that the strikers were insurrectionists ripping at the fabric of the republic.

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I live here and I can validate the fact that immigrants in this city are part of the fabric of our lives ...

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And you do that with each one of the characters, and this fabric tapestry just kind of gets woven very, very slowly until it’s time to shoot it, really.

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