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Fashioner - 3 dictionary results

fash⋅ion⋅er

[fash-uh-ner]
–noun
1. a person who fashions, forms, or gives shape to anything.
2. a tailor or modiste.

Origin:
1540–50; fashion + -er 1
fash·ion   (fāsh'ən)   
n.  
  1. The prevailing style or custom, as in dress or behavior: out of fashion.
  2. Something, such as a garment, that is in the current mode: a swimsuit that is the latest fashion.
  3. The style characteristic of the social elite: a man of fashion.
    1. Manner or mode; way: Set the table in this fashion.
    2. A personal, often idiosyncratic manner: played the violin in his own curious fashion.
  4. Kind or variety; sort: people of all fashions.
  5. Shape or form; configuration.
tr.v.   fash·ioned, fash·ion·ing, fash·ions
  1. To give shape or form to; make: fashioned a table from a redwood burl.
  2. To train or influence into a particular state or character.
  3. To adapt, as to a purpose or an occasion; accommodate.
  4. Obsolete To contrive.

[Middle English facioun, from Old French façon, appearance, manner, from Latin factiō, factiōn-, a making, from factus, past participle of facere, to make, do; see dhē- in Indo-European roots.]
fash'ion·er n.
Synonyms: These nouns refer to a prevailing or preferred manner of dress, adornment, behavior, or way of life at a given time. Fashion, the broadest term, usually refers to what accords with conventions adopted by polite society or by any culture or subculture: a time when long hair was the fashion.
Style is sometimes used interchangeably with fashion, but like mode often stresses adherence to standards of elegance: traveling in style; miniskirts that were the mode in the late sixties.
Vogue is applied to fashion that prevails widely and often suggests enthusiastic but short-lived acceptance: a video game that was in vogue a few years ago. See Also Synonyms at method.

Fashioner

Fash"ion*er\, n. One who fashions, forms, ar gives shape to anything. [R.]

The fashioner had accomplished his task, and the dresses were brought home. --Sir W. Scott.
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