FABRIC, noun [Latin , a frame, a workman.] 1. The structure of any thing; the manner in which the parts of a thing are untied by art and labor; workmanship; texture. This is cloth of a beautiful fabric 2. The frame or structure of a building; construction. More generally, the building itself; an edifice; a house; a temple; a church; a bridge, etc. The word is usually applied to a large building. 3. Any system composed of connected parts; as the fabric of the universe. 4. Cloth manufactured. Silks and other fine fabrics of the east. FABRIC, verb intransitive To frame; to build; to construct. [Little used.]
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