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fashioner

[ fash-uh-ner ]

/ ˈfæʃ ə nər /

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noun

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

a tailor or modiste.

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Origin of fashioner

First recorded in 1540–50; fashion + -er¹

Words nearby fashioner

FASD, fash, fashion, fashionable, fashion coordinator, fashioner, fashion-forward, fashion house, fashion icon, fashionista, fashion plate

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How to use fashioner in a sentence

Thinking of the upper lip as the fashioner of the words makes speaking easy and singing a delight.
Resonance in Singing and Speaking|Thomas Fillebrown
He is rather a seer, accordingly, than a fashioner, and what he produces will be less a work than an effluence.
Browning's England|Helen Archibald Clarke
He is rather a seer, accordingly, than a fashioner; and what he produces will be less a work than an effluence.
The Browning Cyclopdia|Edward Berdoe
He createth, but was never created; He is the maker of His own form, and the fashioner of His own body.
Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life|E. A. Wallis Budge

He is an elaborate fashioner of allegory, and would so interpret the fictions of the poets.
The Mediaeval Mind (Volume I of II)|Henry Osborn Taylor