Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Fabrication

Fabrication , noun

[Latin fabricatio; compare French fabrication.]

1.
The act of fabricating, framing, or constructing; construction; manufacture; as, the fabrication of a bridge, a church, or a government. — Burke
2.
That which is fabricated; a falsehood; as, the story is doubtless a fabrication.