fabric

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Cloth or material made by weaving or knitting threads together.

   The curtains were made of a light, semi-transparent fabric.

2. 2
   noun

   The basic structure that holds a society or system together.

   Strong families are an important part of the fabric of society.

Borrowed from French fabrique, from Latin fabrica (“a workshop, art, trade, product of art, structure, fabric”), from faber (“artisan, workman”). Doublet of fabrica, borrowed from Latin, and forge, borrowed from Old French.

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