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whole cloth

noun

Meaning

  1. A newly made textile which has not yet been cut.
  2. (used attributively or preceded by various prepositions) The fictitious material from which complete fabrications, lies with no basis in truth, are made.
  3. Something made completely new, with no history, and not based on anything else.
  4. In full extent, wholesale, entirely, without changes or additions

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data