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Whole cloth

adv, noun

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Adverb
  1. 1
    in full extent, wholesale, entirely, without changes or additions idiomatic, not-comparable

    "Some are strangely detailed, like the hugely antlered white deer-creature-cum-forest-god seemingly stolen whole cloth from Princess Mononoke."

Noun
  1. 1
    A newly made textile which has not yet been cut. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    The fictitious material from which complete fabrications, lies with no basis in truth, are made. figuratively, uncountable

    "Mr. Doe's account of the accident was made from whole cloth."

  3. 3
    Something made completely new, with no history, and not based on anything else. figuratively, uncountable

    "The plans for the widget were drawn from whole cloth."

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