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fashioner

American  
[fash-uh-ner] / ˈfæʃ ə nər /

noun

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

  2. a tailor or modiste.


Etymology

Origin of fashioner

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

Example Sentences

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“Antique shops are in the area, as well as the shop and studio of Hellmut Cordes, German goldsmith and fashioner of old world custom jewelry,” reads the County Star article.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 27, 2023

On the face of it, that should be a good fit for Anderson, a filmmaker who has always been less a master storyteller than a supreme fashioner of story worlds.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 12, 2021

DC, which launched its Superman character in 1938 and Batman a year later, has long languished in the shadow of upstart Marvel Studios as a fashioner of movie mega-blockbusters.

From Time • Jun. 16, 2013

His epitaph reads: To Sir Winston Churchill, skilled fashioner of what he once called that "noble thing," the English sentence, last week went literature's biggest crown, the Nobel Prize for literature.

From Time Magazine Archive

"No, Crillac," interrupted one of the bystanders; "I never heard that you advertised yourself as fashioner to the Polytechnique, or tailor in ordinary to the corps of Pompiers."

From Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume I by Lever, Charles James