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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Pure fabrication or fiction: "He invented, almost out of whole cloth, what it means to be American” ( Ned Rorem). "His account of being drugged, kidnapped and tortured was made up of whole cloth” ( George Carver).

Wiktionary

  1. n. A newly made textile which has not yet been cut.
  2. n. figuratively The fictitious material from which complete fabrications, lies with no basis in truth, are made.
  3. n. Something made completely new, with no history, and not based on anything else.
  4. adv. idiomatic in full extent, wholesale, entirely, without changes or additions

Etymologies

  1. From whole +‎ cloth. (Wiktionary)
  2. From the fabrication of garments out of newly manufactured, full-sized pieces of cloth. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. whole cloth
  1. piece
  1. gaiter
  1. all over
  1. web
  1. make
  1. sample
  1. Shearing
  1. cloth-beam

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