whole cloth noun 3adverb 1forms 1 noun3 •A newly made textile which has not yet been cut. •(figurative) The fictitious material from which complete fabrications, lies with no basis in truth, are made.Mr. Doe's account of the accident was made from whole cloth. •(figurative) Something made completely new, with no history, and not based on anything else.The plans for the widget were drawn from whole cloth. adverb1 •In full extent, wholesale, entirely, without changes or additions.Some are strangely detailed, like the hugely antlered white deer-creature-cum-forest-god seemingly stolen whole cloth from Princess Mononoke. — 2012 formswhole cloths
