[f. FASHION v. + -ER1.] One that fashions; one that gives fashion or shape to; a creator, maker.
1548. Udall, etc., Erasm. Par. 1 Cor. xi. 11. The man is principall doer and fashioner.
1615. trans. De Monfart’s Surv. E. Indies, Pref., B j a. Yet was I not so much the Translator, as the Fashioner of this worke.
a. 1673. J. Caryl, in Spurgeon, Treas. Dav., Ps. cxxxix 14. God is the … fashioner of us all.
1809. Mrs. J. West, The Mother (1810), 224.
| Mysterious fate! Truth on the storied page | |
| A feeble outline draws, and yields the pen | |
| To vivid fancy, fashioner of ills | |
| Most horrible. |
1810. Scott, Monast., xxxvii. A fashioner of doublets.
1864. Sir F. Palgrave, Norm. & Eng., III. 27. With him [Richard le-bon], commences a new era, of which he was equally the fashioner and the fashioned, signalized by the thorough assimilation of Normandy to the French community.
b. One who makes articles of dress; a tailor costumier, modiste. Obs. or arch.
[Cf. F. foçonnier, ‘ouvrier qui travaille aux ouvrages façonnés’ (Littré).]
1625. B. Jonson, The Staple of Newes, V. i.
| Where is my Fashioner? my Feather-man? | |
| My Linnener? Perfumer? Barber? all? | |
| That tayle of Riot, follow’d me this morning? |
1706. Phillips (ed. Kersey), Fashioner, as The Queen’s Fashioner, or Taylor.
1771. Smollett, Humph. Cl. (1815), 254. Mr. Coshgrave, the fashioner in Shuffolk Street.
1826. Scott, Mal. Malagr., i. 52. The philosophical tailors of Laputa, who wrought by mathematical calculation, had, no doubt, a supreme contempt for those humble fashioners who went to work by measuring the person of their customer.
1858. Simmonds, Dict. Trade, Fashioner, one who fashions or shapes things; a tailor.
1859. R. F. Burton, Centr. Afr., in Jrnl. Geog. Soc., XXIX. 323. Fashion and its fashioners.
