facture

noun /ˈfæk.tʃə/

1. The act or manner of making or doing anything, especially of a literary, musical, or pictorial production.

   archaic

   [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.

2. An invoice or bill of parcels.

   dated

Where it comes from

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

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry facture (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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