manufact

plural manufacts

1. countableA manufactured (manmade) object.

   An amalgam of cultures, these manufacts sometimes lean towards the East and sometimes towards the West and function as status symbol or as a distinct 'code', worthy of a very broad spectrum of communication.

   2009, Iosif Hadjikyriakos, “The Decorative Arts in Cyprus: Representation of a Society from the 17ᵗʰ to the 19ᵗʰ Century”, in Ottoman Cyprus: a Collection of Studies on History and Culture (Near and Middle East Monographs (new series); 4), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 261

2. obsoleteuncountableManufacturing, manufacture.

   But more particulary that, / Where Lady was to wear a Hat; / And lay the Enſigns of their pride; / Their Silken Ornaments aſide; / Which would have been a wholſome Act, / T' encourage Woolen Manufact;

   1690, Thomas d'Urfey, “Canto III”, in Collin's Walk Through London and Westminster: A Poem in Burlesque, London: […] Rich. Parker […], page 105