whole cloth
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whole cloth
noun whole cloths
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A newly made textile which has not yet been cut.
Similar: broadcloth
- The fictitious material from which complete fabrications, lies with no basis in truth, are made. Mr. Doe's account of the accident was made from whole cloth.
- Something made completely new, with no history, and not based on anything else. The plans for the widget were drawn from whole cloth.
adverb
- In full extent, wholesale, entirely, without changes or additions. Some are strangely detailed, like the hugely antlered white deer-creature-cum-forest-god seemingly stolen whole cloth from Princess Mononoke.
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noun complete fabrication
| Deutsch | frei erfunden |
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| Italiano | di sana pianta |
adv entirely
| Русский | целико́м celikóm, подчисту́ю podčistúju |
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