facture

From French facture (“a making, invoice”), from Latin factura (“a making”). Doublet of feature. See fact.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfæk.tʃə/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfæk.t͡ʃəɹ/

facture (plural factures)

1. (archaic) The act or manner of making or doing anything, especially of a literary, musical, or pictorial production.
   • 1605, Francis Bacon, “The Second Booke”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC, folio 41, verso:

     [T]here is no doubt but the facture or framing of the inward parts, is as full of difference, as the outward, and in that, is the Cauſe Continent of many diſeaſes, which not be obſerued, they quarrell many times with the humors which are not in fault, the fault being in the very frame and Mechanicke of the parte, which cannot be remoued by medicine alteratiue, but muſt be accomodate and palliate by dyets and medicines familiar.

   • 1994, Fred Orton, Figuring Jasper Johns, Reaktion Books, →ISBN, page 114:

     It has become usual in discussions of Flag's facture to use the terms, suggested by [Jasper] Johns himself, ‘encaustic, oil and collage on fabric’.

2. (dated, business) An invoice or bill of parcels.

• furcate

• IPA^(key): /fak.tyʁ/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (France (Somain)):

  (file)

Learned borrowing from Latin factūra. Compare the inherited Old French faiture.

facture f (plural factures)

1. bill, invoice
2. craft, making, fabric
   • 1979, Georges Perec, Un cabinet d’amateur, Le Livre de Poche, page 108:

     Delacroix obtint 11 000 $ pour des Cavaliers arabes pleins de fougue mais d’une facture plutôt relâchée.

     Delacroix obtained 11,000$ for Arab Riders, full of enthusiasm but of somewhat diminished craftsmanship.

• facturer
  • facturation

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

facture

1. inflection of facturer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “facture”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• facteur

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [fakˈtuː.rɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [fakˈtuː.re]

factūre

1. vocative masculine singular of factūrus

facture

1. inflection of facturar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

facture

1. inflection of facturar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative