fabric
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
fabric/ˈfabrɪk/
▶noun
- 1 material produced by weaving or knitting textile fibres; cloth.
- 2 a structure or framework, especially the walls, floor, and roof of a building.
■ the essential structure of something abstract: the fabric of society.
– origin C15 (orig. denoting a building or machine, i.e. ‘something made’): from Fr. fabrique, from L. fabrica ‘something skilfully produced’.
'fabric' also found in these Oxford entries:
Aertex
- alpaca
- angora
- appliqué
- bafta
- balbriggan
- bandeau
- barège
- batiste
- Bedford cord
- beige
- bias
- bias binding
- billow
- bind
- binding
- block
- bobble
- bolt
- bombazine
- brilliantine
- broadcloth
- brocade
- brushed
- buckskin
- burse
- byssus
- calico
- cambric
- camel
- camel hair
- candlewick
- carpet
- cellular
- challis
- charmeuse
- chiffon
- chino
- chintz
- ciré
- cloqué
- cloth
- cloth of gold
- collage
- corduroy
- cotton
- couch
- count
- crash
- cravat
