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
To the prima ballerina the dancing is more important than the dance, to the actors the playing than the play, to many painters the facture than the picture, and so on.
From Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" by Spence, Edward Fordham
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