facture
Americannoun
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the act, process, or manner of making anything; construction.
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the thing made.
noun
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construction
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workmanship; quality
Etymology
Origin of facture
1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin factūra the making (of something). See fact, -ure
Example Sentences
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Most often, though, he melds the Cubist facture and Expressionist gesture that were at a cutting edge in Modern European painting during his youth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2022
Swinney said Ross had been dealing with stress facture in his foot throughout the season.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 16, 2021
England fast bowler Jofra Archer will miss this winter's T20 World Cup and the Ashes in Australia with a stress facture in his right elbow.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2021
It won’t help their cause that Victor Oladipo will be out indefinitely with a facial facture.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 27, 2014
There arose a new class 'who discovered the cheap, and foresaw fortune in the facture of the sham.
From Recent Developments in European Thought by Various
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