different between fabric vs doeskin

English

Alternative forms

• fabrick (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from French fabrique, from Latin fabrica (“a workshop, art, trade, product of art, structure, fabric”), from faber (“artisan, workman”). Doublet of forge, borrowed from Old French.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fæb.??k/

Noun

fabric (countable and uncountable, plural fabrics)

1. (now rare) An edifice or building.
   • |title=The Romance of the Forest|publisher=Oxford 1999|p=86|text=They withdrew from the gate, as if to depart, but he presently thought he heard them amongst the trees on the other side of the fabric, and soon became convinced that they had not left the abbey.}}
2. (archaic) The act of constructing, construction, fabrication.
   • 1855, Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin Christianity^[1]:

     Tithe was received by the bishop […] for the fabric of the churches for the poor.

3. (archaic) The structure of anything, the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship, texture, make.

4. The framework underlying a structure.

5. A material made of fibers, a textile or cloth.

6. (petrology) The appearance of crystalline grains in a rock.
7. (computing) Interconnected nodes that look like a textile fabric when diagrammed.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:fabric

Descendants

• ? Irish: fabraic

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Fabrics

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?fabrik]

Verb

fabric

1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of fabrica

English

Etymology

doe +? skin.

Noun

doeskin (countable and uncountable, plural doeskins)

1. (uncountable) Leather from the skin of a female deer or sheep.
2. (countable) The hide of a doe, as opposed to a buck.

   Frequently, doeskins had a higher value in trade than the skins of bucks, as they were considered of finer quality.

3. (countable, chiefly in the plural) A glove made of doeskin leather.

   Elizabeth accidentally left her doeskins on the pew at Sunday service.

4. (uncountable) A very soft, close-napped fabric, especially of high quality.
   • 1905, William Cowper Brann, The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10 [3]:

     In the morning Mr. Logan wore a doeskin box coat with pearl buttons nearly as large as alarm clocks in two rows on it.

Hyponyms

• skin