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.]