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Pure fabrication or fiction: "He invented, almost out of whole cloth, what it means to be American" (Ned Rorem). "His account of being drugged, kidnapped and tortured was made up of whole cloth" (George Carver).

[From the fabrication of garments out of newly manufactured, full-sized pieces of cloth.]

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