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manufact en · NOUN

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin manufactus.

Meanings

1. (countable) A manufactured (manmade) object.
   • An amalgam of cultures, these manufacts sometimes lean towards the East and sometimes towards the West and function as status symbol or as a distinct 'code', worthy of a very broad spectrum of communication. 2009, Iosif Hadjikyriakos, “The Decorative Arts in Cyprus: Representation of a Society from the 17ᵗʰ to the 19ᵗʰ Century”, in Ottoman Cyprus: a Collection of Studies on History and Culture (Near and Middle East Monographs (new series); 4), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 261:
2. (obsolete, uncountable) Manufacturing, manufacture.
   • But more particulary that, / Where Lady was to wear a Hat; / And lay the Enſigns of their pride; / Their Silken Ornaments aſide; / Which would have been a wholſome Act, / T' encourage Woolen Manufact; 1690, Thomas d'Urfey, “Canto III”, in Collin's Walk Through London and Westminster: A Poem in Burlesque, London: […] Rich. Parker […], page 105:

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