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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



... time, that it was obligatory also upon the "lords" aforesaid, to wash dishes, scour up, be put to the tub, handle the broom, darn stockings, patch breeches, scold the servants, dress in the latest fashion, wear trinkets, look beautiful, and be as fascinating as those blessed morsels of humanity whom God gave to preserve that rough animal man, in something like a reasonable civilization. ...
— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I • Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage
... first black frock was such an improvement (in fashion) upon the pink silk one, as to deprive my deep mourning of much of its gloom. Mrs. (Colonel) St. Quentin could not refuse to lend one of her youngest little girl's frocks as a copy, for "the poor little orphan"; and a bevy of ladies sat in ...
— Six to Sixteen - A Story for Girls • Juliana Horatia Ewing
... them. In reality I was more interested in a group of tall girls who were patrolling up and down under the shade of the trees at the head of their playground—where no boy but I dare enter, and even I only officially. For in kindly Scots fashion, the Eden Valley Academy was not only open to all comers of both sexes and ages, but was set in the midst of a wood of tall pines, in which we seniors were permitted to walk at our guise and ...
— The Dew of Their Youth • S. R. Crockett
... had stolen in ten, both in flocks and fellahin, and the successful general perpetuated the memory of his exploits by inscribing, as he returned, the name of Pharaoh on some rock at Syene or Elephantine: we may surmise that it was after this fashion that Usirkaf, Nofiririkeri, and Unas carried on the wars in Nubia. Their armies probably never went beyond the second cataract, if they even reached so far: further south the country was only known by the accounts of the natives ...
— History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 2 (of 12) • G. Maspero
... going home to my wife," said one to his neighbour. "If the queen sets the fashion of obedience, it behoves all good ...
— Havelok The Dane - A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln • Charles Whistler


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