fabrication

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

FABRICATION, noun 1. The act of framing or constructing construction; as the fabrication of a bridge or of a church. 2. The act of manufacturing. 3. The act of devising falsely; forgery. 4. That which is fabricated; a falsehood. The story is doubtless a fabrication
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