fabrication

noun

1 the story was a complete fabrication:

invention, concoction, piece of fiction, fiction, falsification, falsity, lie, untruth, falsehood, fib, deception, made-up story, trumped-up story, fairy story/tale, cock and bull story, barefaced lie;

(little) white lie, half-truth, exaggeration, prevarication, departure from the truth;

yarn, story, red herring, rumour, myth, flight of fancy, figment of the imagination;

pretence, pretext, sham, ruse, wile, trickery, stratagem;

informal tall story, tall tale, whopper;

British, informal porky, pork pie, porky pie;

humorous terminological inexactitude;

vulgar slang bullshit;

Australian, New Zealand, vulgar slang bulldust.

2 the lintels are galvanized after fabrication:

manufacture, making, creation, production;

construction, building, assembly, putting together, forming, fashioning, contriving, modelling, shaping, forging;

erection, putting up, setting up, raising, elevation.

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