Antonyms for fashioning
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : fash-uhn |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈfæʃ ən |
Definition of fashioning
Origin :- c.1300, "shape, manner, mode," from Old French façon (12c.) "face, appearance; construction, pattern, design; thing done; beauty; manner, characteristic feature," from Latin factionem (nominative factio) "group of people acting together," literally "a making or doing," from facere "to make" (see factitious).
- Sense of "prevailing custom" is from late 15c.; that of "style of attire" is from 1520s.
- To call a fashion wearable is the kiss of death. No new fashion worth its salt is wearable. [Eugenia Sheppard, "New York Herald Tribune," Jan. 13, 1960]
- Fashion plate (1851) originally was "full-page picture in a popular magazine showing the prevailing or latest style of dress," in reference to the typographic "plate" from which it was printed. Transfered sense of "well-dressed person" had emerged by 1920s.
- verb adjust, design, create
- These are the second causes which God used as his ministers in fashioning the world.
- Extract from : « Timaeus » by Plato
- Thus England was fashioning a new system and defining a new policy.
- Extract from : « The Fathers of New England » by Charles M. Andrews
- We are fashioning our life too much after the conduct of the children of Israel.
- Extract from : « Sparkling Gems of Race Knowledge Worth Reading » by Various
- I am, as it were, a creature of your own fashioning, and I owe to you that which I never can repay.
- Extract from : « Japhet in Search of a Father » by Frederick Marryat
- One half expects to see him fashioning a gorget or a sword on his anvil.
- Extract from : « Children of the Tenements » by Jacob A. Riis
- In other rooms workmen were fashioning the gold into various articles and ornaments.
- Extract from : « Rinkitink in Oz » by L. Frank Baum
- But while fashioning this agency, they fully recognized the governments of the States.
- Extract from : « American Eloquence, Volume II. (of 4) » by Various
- Here they remained for a day quarrying pipestone and fashioning pipes.
- Extract from : « The Spirit Lake Massacre » by Thomas Teakle
- But the tables and chairs and the corner cupboard were of his fashioning.
- Extract from : « A Little Girl in Old Pittsburg » by Amanda M. Douglas
- How many persons took part in its fashioning and its filling?
- Extract from : « The Bible and Life » by Edwin Holt Hughes
Synonyms for fashioning
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