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FASHIONED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Planned and made or fashioned artistically
Example:
beautifully fashioned dresses
Classified under:
Similar:
designed; intentional; unintentional (done or made or performed with purpose and intent)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb fashion
Context examples:
Odds and ends, some pipes, a few novels, two of them in Spanish, an old-fashioned pinfire revolver, and a guitar were among the personal property.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“I am afraid that it will take wiser heads than yours or mine,” he remarked, and bowing in a stately, old-fashioned manner he departed.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In repassing through the small vaulted room, however, your eyes will be attracted towards a large, old-fashioned cabinet of ebony and gold, which, though narrowly examining the furniture before, you had passed unnoticed.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Captain Harville was no reader; but he had contrived excellent accommodations, and fashioned very pretty shelves, for a tolerable collection of well-bound volumes, the property of Captain Benwick.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
As Alleyne walked up to it he perceived that it was rudely fashioned out of beams of wood, with twinkling lights all over where the glow from within shone through the chinks.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Here, however, Elinor perceived,—not the language, not the professions of Colonel Brandon, but the natural embellishments of her mother's active fancy, which fashioned every thing delightful to her as it chose.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Instead, date the old-fashioned way, by having friends make introductions.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Ornate items including crucifixes and chess pieces were fashioned from walrus ivory by craftsmen of the age.
(Lost Norse of Greenland fuelled the medieval ivory trade, ancient walrus DNA suggests, University of Cambridge)
One of the advantages of these materials is that we can selectively activate portions of a structure and control them using localized or focused light and unlike other light actuated materials based on liquid crystals, these materials can be fashioned to move either toward, or away from the direction of the light.
(New Materials Developed by Scientists Able to Move in Response to Light, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
We entered a low, old-fashioned room, walked straight into from the street, and found there Mrs. Heep, who was the dead image of Uriah, only short.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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