manufact
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin manufactus.[1]
Noun
manufact (countable and uncountable, plural manufacts)
- (countable) A manufactured (manmade) object.
- 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)[1], Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 261:
- 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.
- (uncountable, obsolete) Manufacturing, manufacture.
- 1690, Thomas d'Urfey, “Canto III”, in Collin's Walk Through London and Westminster: A Poem in Burlesque[2], London: […] Rich. Parker […], page 105:
- 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;
References
- ^ “manufact”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.