fashioner

Variant of fashion

noun

  1. the make, form, or shape of a thing
  2. Now Rare kind; sort
  3. the way in which something is made or done; manner
  4. the current style or mode of dress, speech, conduct, etc.
  5. something, esp. a garment, in the current style
  6. fashionable people as a group: a man of fashion

Origin: ME fasoun < OFr faceon < L factio, a making: see faction

transitive verb

  1. to make in a certain way; give a certain form to; shape; mold
  2. to fit; accommodate (to): music fashioned to our taste
  3. Obsolete to think up; contrive

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