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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.
EXPANDthe method of construction.
6.
the act of constructing, especially of a church building.
7.
the maintenance of such a building.
8.
COLLAPSEPetrography. the spatial arrangement and orientation of the constituents of a rock.
Origin:
1475–85; (< Middle French fabrique) < Latin fabrica craft, especially metalworking or building, workshop. See forge1
1475–85; (< Middle French fabrique) < Latin fabrica craft, especially metalworking or building, workshop. See forge1
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is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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Word Origin & History
fabric
late 15c., "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).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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