Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The manner in which something, especially a work of art, is made.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act or manner of making; construction or structure.
  • noun In com., an invoice or a bill of parcels.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act or manner of making or doing anything; -- now used of a literary, musical, or pictorial production.
  • noun (Com.) An invoice or bill of parcels.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun archaic The act or manner of making or doing anything, especially of a literary, musical, or pictorial production.
  • noun dated, business An invoice or bill of parcels.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French, from Latin factūra, a working or making; see feature.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

French facture a making, invoice, Latin factura a making. See fact.

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