Other forms: fabrics
Fabric is any material that clothes are made from. Cotton fabric, a bolt of fabric, choose the fabric.
Woven fabric has threads at right angles and knitted fabric is loops, which is why one frays and the other stretches. The fabric of a building is its physical structure, and the fabric of society is the same metaphor. Note that the Latin fabrica is a workshop, which is where the word starts.
1nounfabricMaterial that clothes are made from.
“She chose a soft blue fabric for the dress she was sewing.”
2nounphysicalThe physical structure of a building.
“Rain has been getting into the old church and damaging the fabric of the building.”
fabric is a material.
Also accepted in games: textile
Latin fabrica means a workshop, from faber, a craftsman. Forge and fabricate come from the same making.
Latin
fabrica — a workshop, art, trade, product of art, structure, fabric
French
fabrique
English, today
fabric
Built from
French fabrique, from Latin fabrica (“a workshop, art, trade, product of art, structure, fabric”), from faber (“artisan, workman”). a doublet of fabrica, borrowed from Latin, and forge, borrowed from Old French.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA