different between fabric vs percale

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

From French percale, of uncertain origin; probably compare percaulah.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p??ke?l/, /p??k??l/
• Rhymes: -e?l

Noun

percale (countable and uncountable, plural percales)

1. (textiles) A fine, closely woven fabric, made from cotton, polyester or a mix of these, and used for sheets and clothing.
   • 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 403]:

     In her percale bed. In her heaven of piled pillows.

Translations

Anagrams

• replace

French

Etymology

From Persian ??????? (parg?le, “a patch, a percale”) (see there for more)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??.kal/

Noun

percale f (uncountable)

1. percale

Further reading

• “percale” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).