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Fashion plate   /fˈæʃən pleɪt/   Listen
Fashion plate

noun
1.
A man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance.  Synonyms: beau, clotheshorse, dandy, dude, fop, gallant, sheik, swell.
2.
A plate illustrating the latest fashion in dress.






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"Fashion plate" Quotes from Famous Books



... rest o' your days: you're welcome to change all that, too. Yes, indeed. Never fear. When we do over the house we're goin' to do over yours truly, too. I'll do exactly as you say and you can turn me out a fashion plate that'll ...
— In Apple-Blossom Time - A Fairy-Tale to Date • Clara Louise Burnham

... full-length picture. Her trim figure was shown to advantage. Her slender white hands were clasped above her bosom, and there was a look of heavenly resignation on her serenely beautiful brow. He cruelly sent it to the editor of "Godey's Ladies' Magazine," and it was blazoned forth as a fashion plate, much enlarged and with many frills, in the following February number of that then valuable and highly fashionable periodical. In return he received their check for five dollars, drawn upon a National Bank of Philadelphia, ...
— A Few Short Sketches • Douglass Sherley



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