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Thing Created Skillfully Inventively Serve Purpose; A Device Literary

Front a thing that is created skillfully and inventively to serve a particular purpose; a device, especially in literary or artistic composition, that gives a sense of artificiality; the use of skill to bring something about or create something
Back contrivance

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