Meaning of fashionably late | Babel Free

Definitions

Arriving behind time to an event which does not normally require one to be punctual.

idiomatic

Examples

“Three hours later—fashionably late, of course—the Stuart party swept in state into their box.”

“Ex-Senator Blount's party of three was fashionably late at the function in Mesa Circle, but in the crush filling the spacious drawing-rooms the hostess and her long line of receiving assistants were still on duty.”

“The sofa which she had counted on to hold four looked crowded with three[…] and when the Simpsons came, fashionably late (having only just finished dinner), they had to content themselves with the end of a holland-covered form hired from the baker.”

“Well, she's fashionably lean / And she's fashionably late / She'll never rank a scene / She'll never break a date”

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