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Fashioned

Fashion \Fash"ion\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fashioned; p. pr. & vb. n. Fashioning.] [Cf. F. faconner.]

  1. To form; to give shape or figure to; to mold.

    Here the loud hammer fashions female toys.
    --Gay.

    Ingenious art . . . Steps forth to fashion and refine the age.
    --Cowper.

  2. To fit; to adapt; to accommodate; -- with to.

    Laws ought to be fashioned to the manners and conditions of the people.
    --Spenser.

  3. To make according to the rule prescribed by custom.

    Fashioned plate sells for more than its weight.
    --Locke.

  4. To forge or counterfeit. [Obs.]
    --Shak.

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

Fashioned

Fashioned \Fash"ioned\, a. Having a certain style or fashion; as, old-fashioned; new-fashioned.

Wiktionary
fashioned
  1. 1 (''in combination'') having a specified fashion or style 2 being in style 3 being well designed v

  2. (en-past of: fashion)

WordNet
fashioned

adj. planned and made or fashioned artistically; "beautifully fashioned dresses"

Usage examples of "fashioned".

But it has an oldfashioned love for the modest and unobtrusive virtues, and an abiding faith that they will win over the strained and strident displays of life.

It is almost the only one remaining of the oldfashioned Spanish haciendas, where the old administration prevails.

His concise written style, for which he is so famed, was fashioned by the need to write for commuters on the train.

Celeste Hudson smiled brilliantly at him from beneath the brim of a charming confection fashioned of palest pink straw and intricately laced ribbons.

The repeating pattern of entwined snakes was so finely detailed that the bracelet appeared to have been fashioned of gold lace rather than cut and shaped from metal.

He turned and caught sight of himself in a large mirror, a luxury of immense value, as it was fashioned from silvered glass imported from Kesh.

In the center of the garden, a fountain fashioned of marble in the form of three dolphins sent up a cheerful spray.

It came from someplace a great deal farther away, and it was fashioned by someone of no mean skill and power.

It is a great stone fashioned by an ancient race known as the Valheru.

Enough wreckage had washed ashore so a rude lean-to had been fashioned from sails and broken spars, but the wood that had drifted ashore from the ship was too wet to do more than smolder on the fire.

The scant garments were finely fashioned and well made, and she wore a ransom in jewels.

Nakor entered, wearing a wonderfully fashioned robe of blue, with a magnificent cape trimmed in a complex design of white and silver threads.

In his left hand he held a short spear, the blade of which seemed to be fashioned of chipped flint, or some other hard and shining stone, and in the girdle of his kilt was thrust a wooden-handled instrument or ax, made by setting a great, sharp-edged stone that must have weighed two pounds or so into the cleft end of the handle which was lashed with sinews both above and below the axhead.

Then he rose and ran to his hovel at the back of the hut whence he returned bearing in his hand a glittering lump fashioned to the shape of an ax.

I found it on the mountainside, one of many shattered fragments, and last winter, working by the light of seal oil, I fashioned it.