Meaning of fashion | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons.
   countable
2. fad
3. Popular trends, especially in clothing; the industry that designs clothing and sometimes other related items.
   uncountable
4. mode
5. A style or manner in which something is done.
   countable
6. The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; workmanship; execution.
   countable, uncountable
7. Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding.
   countable, dated, uncountable

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Examples

“The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years.”

“Check out the latest in fashion.”

“He had always been interested in fashion, so he decided to take a sewing class.”

“the innocent diversions in fashion”

“As now existing, fashion is a form of social regulation analogous to constitutional government as a form of political regulation: displaying, as it does, a compromise between governmental coercion and individual freedom.”

“the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.”

“Ophelia: My lord, he hath importuned me with love in honourable fashion. Lord Polonius: Ay, fashion you may call it; go to, go to.”

“When it had advanced from the wood, it hopped much after the fashion of a kangaroo, using its hind feet and tail to propel it, and when it stood erect, it sat upon its tail.”

“It shell-shocked the home crowd, who quickly demanded a response, which came midway through the half and in emphatic fashion.”

“I do not like the fashion of your garments.”

“The fashion of his countenance was altered.”

“My word! Well, you should have my colorful fashions to thank.”

“men of fashion”

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