facture

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See also: facturé

English

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Etymology

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From French facture (a making, invoice), from Latin factura (a making). Doublet of feature. See fact.

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Noun

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facture (plural factures)

  1. (archaic) The act or manner of making or doing anything, especially of a literary, musical, or pictorial production.
  2. (dated, business) An invoice or bill of parcels.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for facture”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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French

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Etymology 1

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Learned borrowing from Latin factūra. Compare the inherited Old French faiture.

Noun

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facture f (plural factures)

  1. bill, invoice
  2. craft, making, fabric
    • 1979, Georges Perec, Un cabinet d’amateur, Le Livre de Poche, page 108:
      Delacroix obtint 11 000 $ pour des Cavaliers arabes pleins de fougue mais d’une facture plutôt relâchée.
      Delacroix obtained 11,000$ for Arab Riders, full of enthusiasm but of somewhat diminished craftsmanship.
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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facture

  1. inflection of facturer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

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Latin

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Participle

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factūre

  1. vocative masculine singular of factūrus

Portuguese

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Verb

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facture

  1. inflection of facturar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

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Verb

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facture

  1. inflection of facturar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative