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  1. noun A cloth produced especially by knitting, weaving, or felting fibers.
  2. noun The texture or quality of such cloth.
  3. noun A complex underlying structure: destroyed the very fabric of the ancient abbey during wartime bombing; needs to protect the fabric of civilized society.
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cloth ·  silk ·  garment ·  carpet ·  material ·  canvas ·  blanket ·  shirt ·  curtain ·  fur ·  furniture ·  plastic

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fabric:   fabrics
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  1. Middle English fabryke, something constructed, from Old French fabrique, from Latin fabrica, craft, workshop, from faber, fabr-, workman, artificer.

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  1. Formerly also fabrick, fabrike, fabriq, fabrique (= Dutch fabriek = G. Danish Swedish fabrik); from French fabrique = Provencal fabriga = Spanish fábrica = Portuguese fabrica = Italian fabbrica, from Latin fabrica, a workshop, art, trade, product of art, structure, fabric, from faber, a workman (artisan, smith, carpenter, joiner, etc.) (later ult. fever, q. v.), prob. from √ *fa in fa-c-ere, make: see fact. From Latin fabrica, a workshop, through the vernacular Old French forge, comes English forge, n., q. v.
  2. from fabric, n. Cf. fabricate.
 

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