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Fashion   /fˈæʃən/   Listen
noun
Fashion  n.  
1.
The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; as, the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.; workmanship; execution. "The fashion of his countenance was altered." "I do not like the fashion of your garments."
2.
The prevailing mode or style, especially of dress; custom or conventional usage in respect of dress, behavior, etiquette, etc.; particularly, the mode or style usual among persons of good breeding; as, to dress, dance, sing, ride, etc., in the fashion. "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."
3.
Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding; as, men of fashion.
4.
Mode of action; method of conduct; manner; custom; sort; way. "After his sour fashion."
After a fashion, to a certain extent; of a sort; sort of.
Fashion piece (Naut.), one of the timbers which terminate the transom, and define the shape of the stern.
Fashion plate, a pictorial design showing the prevailing style or a new style of dress.


verb
Fashion  v. t.  (past & past part. fashioned; pres. part. fashioning)  
1.
To form; to give shape or figure to; to mold. "Here the loud hammer fashions female toys." "Ingenious art... Steps forth to fashion and refine the age."
2.
To fit; to adapt; to accommodate; with to. "Laws ought to be fashioned to the manners and conditions of the people."
3.
To make according to the rule prescribed by custom. "Fashioned plate sells for more than its weight."
4.
To forge or counterfeit. (Obs.)
Fashioning needle (Knitting Machine), a needle used for widening or narrowing the work and thus shaping it.





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"Fashion" Quotes from Famous Books



... over there or knocking up against men walking about in smocks that were hardly enough to conceal their uniform.... It is a constant, progressive underhand work. Everybody is helping in it. The electric factory which the Wildermann firm has run up in that ridiculous fashion on the edge of the precipice is only a make-believe. The road that leads to it is a military road. From the factory to the Col du Diable is less than half a mile. One effort and ...
— The Frontier • Maurice LeBlanc
... now to reap the fruits of a long and well spent life. His personal fame aided him in a land where philosophers had become the fashion of the day, and as the representative of a people struggling for liberty he was peculiarly dear to the French, who were themselves speculating on such matters and preparing for their own revolution. It ...
— Benjamin Franklin • Paul Elmer More
... 'esteem,' and a great deal of metaphysical words that are destined to remain untranslated in their original Spanish. The good Senora, though she could boast only of forty-four years' experience, was not altogether to be 'had' in that fashion—she was as learned as if she had been fifty, and she brought matters to a speedy crisis. 'You are a Spaniard,' she said, 'a gentleman, therefore; remember that you are a gentleman. This very night, if your intentions are not serious, quit my house. Go to Tucuman; you shall command my horses ...
— Narrative And Miscellaneous Papers • Thomas De Quincey
... down from deck, did he?" mused Joe, as he took note of the Frenchman's false statement. "Well, he must have run up and run down again in jig fashion to be able to do that. I wonder what ...
— The Moving Picture Boys on the War Front - Or, The Hunt for the Stolen Army Films • Victor Appleton
... Cranes—almost pre-historic (please notice, however, the up-to-date additions): "My Mother" is mid-Victorian—just after crinolines had gone out—but mothers are always in fashion, bless them,—and you also, dear children, whether of the old or the new world, who, having chosen your parents wisely, have become possessors of this book, may your shoes never want buckling, and if by any mischance you should lose one, may Good Luck always find a spare ...
— The Buckle My Shoe Picture Book - One, Two, Buckle My Shoe; A Gaping-Wide-Mouth Waddling Frog; My Mother • Walter Crane


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