| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | fac·ture |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  f k ch r |
| NOUN: | The manner in which something, especially a work of art, is made: “the gummy surfaces, spectral smudges and woozy contours that . . . appear in counterpoint to the clear, bright facture that had heretofore been [the artist's] hallmark” (Robert Shorr, Art in America April 1989). | | ETYMOLOGY: | French, from Latin fact ra, a working or making. See feature.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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