Manufact

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A manufactured (manmade) object. countable

    "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."

  2. 2
    Manufacturing, manufacture. obsolete, uncountable

    "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;"

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"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."

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin manufactus.

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