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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.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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... belonging to Sir Daniel's establishment, and attired in his livery of murrey and blue, partly nondescript strangers attracted to the town by greed, and received by the knight through policy, and because it was the fashion of ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 8 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... lot of few. There would be something more than treasure hunting here; an intricate comedy-drama, with as many well-defined sides as a diamond. He ate his endive with pleasure and sipped the old yellow Pol Roger with his eyes beaming toward the gods. To be, after a fashion, the prompter behind the scenes; to be able to read the final line before the curtain! Butterflies and butterflies and pins ...
— A Splendid Hazard • Harold MacGrath
... possessed, saw that he was at her mercy. But she loved her liberty. She had tasted such bliss as married life could offer,—so she thought, and she preferred to feel free to smile on whom she pleased. She was virtuous, and kind, after a fashion, but she was fast becoming a coquet,—a flirt. In her little world she was a queen, and the homage of one did not satisfy her. Hearts were her playthings,—they amused her, and she ...
— Yorkshire Tales. Third Series - Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect • John Hartley
... Then the Banking act was suspended, so that the Reichsbank and private banks were freed from the obligation to give out gold for notes. At once all notes went to a discount in the shops as compared with gold. Thereupon, in summary fashion, the Military Governor of Berlin declared the notes to be a full legal tender and announced that any shop refusing to take them at par would be ...
— New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 - April-September, 1915 • Various
... And when he returned to Normandy he would take her with him, and say to his children, "Behold your mother!" And then the great rambling mansion of Cotenoir would assume a home-like aspect. The ponderous old furniture would be replaced by lightsome appointments of modern fashion; except, of course, in the grand drawing-room, where there were tapestries said to be from the designs of Boucher, and chairs and sofas in the true Louis Quinze ...
— Charlotte's Inheritance • M. E. Braddon


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