fabricnoun
uk/ˈfæb.rɪk/us/ˈfæb.rɪk/fabric noun (CLOTH)
C1 [ C or U ] cloth or material for making clothes, covering furniture, etc.:
dress fabric
seats upholstered in red fabric
cotton fabrics
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- Linen is a coarse-grained fabric.
- The fibres are woven into fabric.
- This fabric is similar to wool, only cheaper.
- The designs are printed onto the fabric by hand.
- She designs her own fabrics using woodblocks and stencils to create patterns on the material.
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Textiles: general words
- baize
- bias
- bolt
- brocade
- cloth
- cutpiece
- denier 1
- drapery
- filament
- gauze
- lint
- nap
- padding
- pile
- strand
- textile
- the weft
- upholstery
- wadding
- warp
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fabric noun (STRUCTURE)
the fabric of sth
C2 the structure or parts of something:
the fabric of society
Unhappiness was woven into the natural fabric of people's lives.
We must invest in the fabric of our hospitals and start rebuilding them.
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Frames & structures
- anatomy
- armature
- assembly
- bezel
- carcass
- clothes hanger
- clothes horse
- coat hanger
- construction
- frame
- gantry
- hanger
- honeycomb
- infrastructure
- photo frame
- shell
- skeleton
- stand
- structure
- substructure
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