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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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
Picasso was the deceased royalty being referenced in Hartigan’s “The King Is Dead,” a mural-size tour de force that untangled his brand of Cubist facture and turned it into a whirling dervish of paint-loaded brushwork.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2017
It won’t help their cause that Victor Oladipo will be out indefinitely with a facial facture.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 27, 2014
It is said that no one ever saw Chardin at work in his atelier, but his method, his facture has been ferreted out though never excelled.
From Promenades of an Impressionist by Huneker, James
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