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fab⋅ric

  [fab-rik]
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–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, esp. of a church building.
7. the maintenance of such a building.
8. Petrography. the spatial arrangement and orientation of the constituents of a rock.
Origin:
1475–85; (< MF fabrique) < L fabrica craft, esp. metalworking or building, workshop. See forge 1
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fab·ric   (fāb'rĭk)   
n.  

    1. A cloth produced especially by knitting, weaving, or felting fibers.

    2. The texture or quality of such cloth.

    3. A method or style of construction.

    4. A structural material, such as masonry or timber.

    5. A physical structure; a building.

  2. A complex underlying structure: destroyed the very fabric of the ancient abbey during wartime bombing; needs to protect the fabric of civilized society.

    1. A method or style of construction.

    2. A structural material, such as masonry or timber.

    3. A physical structure; a building.


[Middle English fabryke, something constructed, from Old French fabrique, from Latin fabrica, craft, workshop, from faber, fabr-, workman, artificer.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

fabric 
1483, "building, thing made," from M.Fr. fabrique, from L. fabrica "workshop," from faber "artisan who works in hard materials." Sense evolved via "manufactured material" (1753) to "textile" (1791). Fabricate is c.1450, from L. fabricatus, pp. of fabricare "to fashion, build," from fabrica. In bad sense of "to tell a lie," etc., it is first recorded 1779.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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