The process of shaping, making, or creating something with care and skill, often in a deliberate or artistic way.
From Old French 'façon' meaning 'a making or doing,' derived from Latin 'factio' (a doing, making). The -ing suffix marks it as a present participle or gerund form, showing the ongoing action of shaping something.
Fashion used to mean simply 'the way something was made or done' before it became about clothes! Even today when we say 'fashioning a solution' we're using this original meaning—we're 'making' something new out of available materials.
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