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FACTURE

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fac⋅ture

[fak-cher]
–noun
1. the act, process, or manner of making anything; construction.
2. the thing made.

Origin:
1375–1425; late ME < L factūra the making (of something). See fact, -ure
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fac·ture   (fāk'chər)   
n.  The manner in which something, especially a work of art, is made: "the gummy surfaces, spectral smudges and woozy contours that . . . appear in counterpoint to the clear, bright facture that had heretofore been [the artist's] hallmark" (Robert Shorr).

[French, from Latin factūra, a working or making; see feature.]
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