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- noun Plural form of
fashioner .
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Examples
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Tom Wolfe thinks that he's one of the three great fashioners of English prose in this century.
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At all seasons of the year were heard the sounds of the hand-loom and the smith's anvil -- the fashioners of iron and precious metals.
When Dreams Come True Ritter Brown
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These individuals, in bowler hats, sweeping past in sumptuous motors, as rarely seen on foot as Roman cardinals, were the destroyers of thrones, the carvers of continents, the arbiters of empires, the fashioners of the new heaven and the new earth -- or were they only the flies on the wheel of circumstance, to whom the world was unaccountably becoming a riddle?
The Inside Story of the Peace Conference Emile Joseph Dillon 1894
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The skill both of Northern and Southern Frenchmen is seldom to seek in lyric: we cannot give them too high praise as fashioners of instruments for other men to use.
The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) George Saintsbury 1889
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Of course Solomon did not know this, nor Sappho, nor Catullus, nor the fashioners of those "sentiments" of the Middle Ages which brought about the half-fabulous Courts of Love itself, nor Chaucer, nor Spenser, nor Shakespeare, nor Donne.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889
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But the fashioners of new commonwealths and societies, More, Campanella, Bacon, had been as a rule very serious.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889
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Sand-Lady; prayer to those who came after them -- the gods of strength and beauty, the world-fashioners, makers of the mountains and the isles, ancestors of those sovereigns whose lineage still is named 'The Sun's
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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They are brethren of the God-folk and the fashioners of things;
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs William Morris 1865
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Lo, the wealth that Sigurd brings thee from the fashioners of tears!
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs William Morris 1865
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The builders of these cairns and the fashioners of these statues were a different and a better race.
The Naturalist in Nicaragua Thomas Belt 1855
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