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stylish, a.|ˈstaɪlɪʃ|
Also † stilish.
[f. style n. + -ish.]
1. Of persons, their appearance or manners, also of dress, equipage, etc.: Noticeable for ‘style’ or conformity to the fashionable standard of elegance; showily fashionable.
1797Jane Austen Sense & Sens. xxx, A smart, stilish girl, they say, but not handsome. 1800E. S. Bowne Girl's Life Eighty Yrs. Ago (1888) 23, I must either cut my hair or have one [a wig], I cannot dress it at all stylish. 1807–8W. Irving Salmag. (1824) 132 All who would be considered as admitted in the stylish arcana. 1815Chalmers in Hanna Life (1850) II. 8 My lodgings..consist of a dining⁓room and bed-room, perhaps not so stylish as I could have wished, but [etc.]. 1831O. W. Holmes My Aunt 21 He sent her to a stylish school. 1847C. Brontë J. Eyre xxi, Her dress..looked as stylish as the other's looked puritanical. 1851J. H. Newman Pres. Posit. Catholics 16 They prowl about with handsome stocks and stylish waistcoats, and gold chains about their persons. 1883Manch. Exam. 30 Oct. 8/4 A large farmer..attired in good broad-cloth of stylish cut. 1884Lady F. Verney Peasant Properties etc. (1885) II. 250 But ‘stylish’ is of the shop, shoppy, and belongs to the dialect of milliners' apprentices and waiting-maids alone..in England. 1884Punch 1 Nov. 215/1 Rather stylish to have a double-barrelled name. 1902S. E. White Blazed Trail lvii, Occasionally he might have noticed..a besilvered pair champing before a stylish vehicle.
2. In occasional uses: Having ‘style’ (in various senses: see style n. 14, 23, 25 d).
1892Walsh Tea 86 An exceedingly black, ‘silky’ and stylish leaf tea. 1895Daily News 17 May 3/7 Hearne was bowled for a most patient and stylish innings of 65. 1900Athenæum 7 July 12/1 He has produced..a piece of lively and stylish writing.
Hence ˈstylishly adv., ˈstylishness.
1798Jane Austen Northang. Abb. viii, Her air, though it had not all the decided pretension, the resolute stilishness of Miss Thorpe's, had more real elegance. 1879M. E. Braddon Vixen III. 280 Why should you..leave off dressing stylishly? 1898Daily Chron. 8 Oct. 6/6 The plaintiff, a stylishly-dressed young lady. |