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whole cloth

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Noun

  1. A newly made textile which has not yet been cut.
  2. 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.

Adverb

  1. in full extent, wholesale, entirely, without changes or additions

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