fashioner

[ fash-uh-ner ]

noun

1. a person who fashions, forms, or gives shape to anything.
2. a tailor or modiste.

Word History and Origins

Origin of fashioner¹

First recorded in 1540–50; fashion + -er ¹

Example Sentences

Thinking of the upper lip as the fashioner of the words makes speaking easy and singing a delight.

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He is rather a seer, accordingly, than a fashioner, and what he produces will be less a work than an effluence.

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He is rather a seer, accordingly, than a fashioner; and what he produces will be less a work than an effluence.

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He createth, but was never created; He is the maker of His own form, and the fashioner of His own body.

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He is an elaborate fashioner of allegory, and would so interpret the fictions of the poets.

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