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fashioner|ˈfæʃənə(r)| [f. fashion v. + -er1.] One that fashions; one that gives fashion or shape to; a creator, maker.
1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. 1 Cor. xi. 11 The man is principall doer and fashioner. 1615tr. De Monfart's Surv. E. Indies Pref. B j a, The Fashioner of this work. a1673J. Caryl in Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. cxxxix 14 God is the..fashioner of us all. 1809Mrs. J. West The Mother (1810) 224 Fancy, fashioner of ills Most horrible. 1820Scott Monast. xxxvii, A fashioner of doublets. 1864Sir. F. Palgrave Norm. & Eng. III. 27 A new era of which he was..the fashioner. b. One who makes articles of dress; a tailor costumier, modiste. Obs. or arch.[Cf. F. façonnier, ‘ouvrier qui travaille aux ouvrages façonnés’ (Littré).] 1625B. Jonson Staple of N. v. i, Where is my Fashioner..Linener, Perfumer, Barber? 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Fashioner, as the Queen's Fashioner, or Taylor. 1771Smollett Humph. Cl. (1815) 254 Mr. Coshgrave, the fashioner in Shuffolk Street. 1826Scott Mal. Malagr. i. 52 Those humble fashioners..went to work by measuring the person of their customer. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Fashioner..a tailor. 1859R. F. Burton Centr. Afr. in Jrnl. Geog. Soc. XXIX. 323 Fashion and its fashioners. |