Synonyms for fashioned


Grammar : Adj
Spell : fash-uhn
Phonetic Transcription : ˈfæʃ ən


Définition of fashioned

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.
  • adj molded
Example sentences :
  • Come, bring thy load, cast it on Him Who fashioned thee from clay.
  • Extract from : « Rico and Wiseli » by Johanna Spyri
  • To hunt the deer, or fight the wolves and bears, they fashioned clubs of wood.
  • Extract from : « Welsh Fairy Tales » by William Elliott Griffis
  • Henceforth all the mediaeval chalices were fashioned with a six-sided foot.
  • Extract from : « English Villages » by P. H. Ditchfield
  • It is only to give the name of man's faculty to that power after which and by which it was fashioned.
  • Extract from : « A Dish Of Orts » by George MacDonald
  • By the time we had cooked dinner that Indian had fashioned another helve.
  • Extract from : « The Forest » by Stewart Edward White
  • The True Gentleman is one whose nature has been fashioned after the highest models.
  • Extract from : « Self-Help » by Samuel Smiles
  • The past was your own, and you might have fashioned it as you pleased.
  • Extract from : « Henry Dunbar » by M. E. Braddon
  • With these words he took an iron poker and fashioned it into a crutch for himself.
  • Extract from : « The Chinese Fairy Book » by Various
  • The soul of Ruskin was born and fashioned for the mountains.
  • Extract from : « Mountain Meditations » by L. Lind-af-Hageby
  • But it should never be forgotten that the thing from which we recoil did not choose to be fashioned so.
  • Extract from : « Lotus Buds » by Amy Carmichael

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