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/fˈæʃənɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Fashion v. t. (past & past part. fashioned; pres. part. fashioning)

To form; to give shape or figure to; to mold. "Here the loud hammer fashions female toys." "Ingenious art... Steps forth to fashion and refine the age."

To fit; to adapt; to accommodate; with to. "Laws ought to be fashioned to the manners and conditions of the people."

To make according to the rule prescribed by custom. "Fashioned plate sells for more than its weight."

To forge or counterfeit. (Obs.)

Fashioning needle (Knitting Machine), a needle used for widening or narrowing the work and thus shaping it.

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Etymology of 'Fashioning'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Fashioning" Quotes from Famous Books

... Turchi, where the finest of such treasures were not secured at a first asking, and in these his mother was a connoisseur; but there were many more anxious visits to Murano, to be assured that no step in the fashioning of his gift ...

— A Golden Book of Venice • Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull

... forget the third, The Divine Virgin—Womanhood fashioning itself independently after its own ideal. She has driven us, naked and ashamed, into ...

— The Black Cat - A Play in Three Acts • John Todhunter

... land and sea of two boys and a man cast upon an island in the South Seas without food or weapons; their experience in fashioning clothing, tools and weapons, and in overcoming nature and subduing and civilizing savage tribes; covers a wide ...

— Practical Mechanics for Boys • J. S. Zerbe

... he who quenches his thirst from a crystal cup; and the artist who gave the glass its shape, impressed as in a mould of bronze by the simple means of a second's breath and yet more cheaply than the fashioning of the wooden bowl, has done more to ennoble and improve his neighbour than any inventor of a system: in his work he gives him the use and the enjoyment of things for which orators can ...

— The Mind of the Artist - Thoughts and Sayings of Painters and Sculptors on Their Art • Various

... return home. Many motives drew her there, but especially her business; day and night her mind was haunted by the garments which, just at this time, before the commencement of the Reichstag, other dressmakers were fashioning for ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

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