fashionn.
/ˈfæʃən/ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > fashioning, shaping, or forming
shapinga1350
forming1401
formationc1450
fashion1463
plasmation?a1475
framing1551
frame1558
fashioning1574
plasmating1585
fiction1607
effection1623
formature1659
efficiency1665
formativeness1849
styling1928
society > occupation and work > industry > manufacture or production > [noun]
makinglOE
workinga1382
forge1390
fashion1463
facture1574
workmanship1578
fabrication1602
manufaction1602
opificec1616
manufacture1622
makec1631
manufactorya1641
manufact1647
manufacturage1665
manufacturing1669
production1767
mfg.1854
artificing1866
process work1881
machine-production1898
metal-bending1964
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > making jewellery or setting with jewels > [noun] > workmanship as an element in value of jewellery
fashion1463
1463 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 154 Ffor the fasyon of the same schene, v. marc.
1575–6 Act 18 Eliz. c. 15 This they [Goldsmythes] take not above the rate of xij d. for the ounce of Golde (besides the fashion).
1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. 393 (heading) Of the fashion of a childe in the wombe, and how the members are framed.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) iv. i. 29 The..chargefull fashion..doth amount to three odde Duckets more. View more context for this quotation
1664 S. Pepys Diary 19 Oct. (1971) V. 301 They judge the fashion to be worth above 5s. per ounce more.
1761–2 D. Hume Hist. Eng. (1806) III. App. iii. 630 14 or 15 thousand pounds weight [of silver plate], which, besides the fashion, would be [etc.].
2. † b. Spoken of as an attribute, that may be imparted and possessed; form as opposed to matter.† c. Face, features. Obsolete. [A very common use in Old French; perhaps associated with face.]
a. Make, build, shape. Hence, in wider sense, visible characteristics, appearance. Said both of material and of immaterial things. archaic. †out of fashion: out of shape.Some of the earlier instances may belong to 2c.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > shape > [noun]
hue971
shapec1050
form1297
casta1300
entailc1320
fashionc1320
featurec1325
tailc1325
suitc1330
figuringc1385
figure1393
makinga1398
fasurec1400
facea1402
makec1425
proportionc1425
figuration?a1475
protracture1551
physiognomy1567
set1567
portraiturea1578
imagerya1592
model1597
plasmature1610
figurature1642
scheme1655
morphosis1675
turn1675
plasma1712
mould1725
format1936
the world > space > shape > misshapenness > out of shape [phrase]
out of fashion1551
out of square1576
on (or in) a throwa1585
out of straight1678
out of shape1696
c1320 Sir Beues 2155 Me wolde þenke be his fasoun, Þat hit were Beues of Hamtoun.
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 402 A dere damisele..of alle fasoun þe fairest.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 22322 Fair in faciun for to sei.
14.. Tundale's Vis. 2062 A crowne Off gold that was of semyly faschyown.
1440 Promptorium Parvulorum Fassyone, or factyone, forme of makynge, forma, formefactura, formefactio.
?c1510 tr. Newe Landes & People founde by Kynge of Portyngale sig. Ev There be dyuers of people of fason in oure lande..there be people that haue the body of a man & the hede lyke a dogge.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Luke xii. f. xcviijv Ye can skyll of the fassion of the erth, and of the skye.
1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia sig. Bv Vnder the lyne equynoctyall..all thynges be..owte of fasshyon and comylynes.
1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 85v Phalaris..hath a sede..whyte in fasshon.
1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxx. 110 If the infirmitie in fashion be casuall..exercise..will make that streight, which was croked.
1611 Bible (King James) Luke ix. 29 The fashion of his countenance was altered. View more context for this quotation
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 20 He inquireth into the nature and fashion of euery Bone.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Linc. 148 This County in Fashion, is like a bended Bowe.
1785 W. Cowper Task i. 21 A massy slab, in fashion square or round.
1792 E. Burke Heads for Consideration in Three Memorials on French Affairs (1797) 130 The fashion of some constitution which suited with their fancies.
1865 A. C. Swinburne Before Parting in Poems & Ballads 21 I know..The fashion of fair temples tremulous With tender blood.
1876 L. Morris Epic of Hades ii. 143 I knew not The fashion of his nature.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > shape > [noun] > as an attribute
figure1471
fashion1577
idea1594
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iv. f. 185v The..common sort [of bees], when they begin to haue fashion, are called Nimphes.
1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. 394 The seede..receiueth not fashion presently vpon the conception, but remaineth for a time without any figure.
1596 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent (rev. ed.) Ep. Ded. sig. A2v The craftesman that bringeth it to fashion.
1612 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. I. i. i. 2 When we haue matter, we can giue fashion; thou gauest a beeing to the matter, without forme.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > [noun]
leera700
nebeOE
onseneeOE
wlitec950
anlethOE
nebshaftc1225
snouta1300
facec1300
visage1303
semblantc1315
vicea1325
cheera1350
countenance1393
front1398
fashiona1400
visurec1400
physiognomyc1425
groina1500
faxa1522
favour1525
facies1565
visor1575
complexiona1616
frontispiecea1625
mun1667
phiz1687
mug1708
mazard1725
physiog1791
dial plate1811
fizzog1811
jiba1825
dial1837
figurehead1840
Chevy Chase1859
mooey1859
snoot1861
chivvy1889
clock1899
map1899
mush1902
pan1920
kisser1938
boat1958
boat race1958
punim1965
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 21319 Matheu o man he has facium, Luce has of ox.
c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) iii. xxxviii. 155 She shadwde hire visage and hire facioun vnder hire hood.
3. † c. A device, material or immaterial. Obsolete.
a. A particular make, shape, style, or pattern. Somewhat archaic.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > shape > [noun] > a particular
fashionc1325
branch1668
the world > relative properties > kind or sort > [noun] > a kind, sort, or class
kinc950
kindOE
distinction?c1225
rowc1300
spece1303
spice1303
fashionc1325
espicec1386
differencea1398
statec1450
sort?1523
notion1531
species1561
vein1568
brood1581
rank1585
order1588
race1590
breed1598
strain1612
batch1616
tap1623
siege1630
subdivision1646
notionality1651
category1660
denomination1664
footmark1666
genus1666
world1685
sortment1718
tribe1731
assortment1767
description1776
style1794
grouping1799
classification1803
subcategory1842
type1854
basket1916
c1325 Song Merci 41 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 119 I made þe Mon..Of feture liche myn owne fasoun.
a1450 Le Morte Arth. 2531 Galeis grete of fele fasowne.
1522 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 116 A quarte wyne pott of the olde fasshon.
1576 A. Fleming tr. ‘Phalaris Agrigentinus’ in Panoplie Epist. 299 Two standing cuppes of silver, differing from the fashion of this time.
1611 M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. 9 The very Romane Seruice was of two fashions, the New fashion, and the Old.
1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. i. iii. 62 Besides, our fashions of Utensils differ mightily from theirs.
1714 J. Fortescue-Aland in J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. Pref. 32 The Author..puts in his Franco-Germanick, of the Latin fashion.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 464 A limited monarchy after the modern fashion.
1849 G. P. R. James Woodman I. iv. 68 Spreading out at the edges in the fashion of a basin.
b. esp. with reference to attire: a particular ‘cut’ or style. Cf. 8c, 9.
ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > [noun] > make or cut of
shape?c1225
fashion1544
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun]
wearing?c1225
guisec1275
attire1382
habita1420
shapea1425
trick1542
fashion1544
trim1579
suit shape1598
garb1608
form1664
toilet1752
macaroni dressa1777
turn-out1812
style1814
set-out1834
get-up1842
rig1843
feather1854
model1859
make-up1883
1544 R. Tracy Supplycacion to Kynge Henry VIII sig. Dij Somtyme cappe, somtyme hoode, nowe the frenshe fasshyon, nowe the Spanyshe fasshyon.
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xiii. 74 I do not like the fashion of your garments. View more context for this quotation
a1674 Earl of Clarendon Brief View Leviathan (1676) 81 To wear his Clothes of that fashion which he likes best.
1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice I. i. i. 5 Her dress..of no very modern fashion.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > (a) means > available means or a resource > a device, contrivance, or expedient
costOE
craftOE
custc1275
ginc1275
devicec1290
enginec1300
quaintisec1300
contrevurec1330
castc1340
knackc1369
findinga1382
wilea1400
conject14..
skiftc1400
policy?1406
subtilityc1410
policec1450
conjecturea1464
industry1477
invention1516
cunning1526
shift1530
compass1540
chevisance1548
trade1550
tour1558
fashion1562
invent?1567
expediment1571
trick1573
ingeny1588
machine1595
lock1598
contrival1602
contrivement1611
artifice1620
recipea1643
ingenuity1651
expedient1653
contrivance1661
excogitation1664
mechanism1669
expediency1683
stroke1699
spell1728
management1736
manoeuvre1769
move1794
wrinkle1817
dodge1842
jigamaree1847
quiff1881
kink1889
lurk1916
gadget1920
fastie1931
ploy1940
the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > (a) means > equipment for any action or undertaking > a device or contrivance
compassinga1300
graithc1375
jetc1380
cautelc1440
quaint?a1450
invention1546
trick1548
frame1558
fashion1562
device1570
conveyance1596
address1598
molition1598
fabric1600
machine1648
fancy1665
art1667
fanglementa1670
convenience1671
conveniency1725
contraption1825
affair1835
rig1845
1562 P. Whitehorne tr. N. Machiavelli Arte of Warre b ij a Against this fashion they haue used to make a fashion like unto a paire of sheres.
1636 A. Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae (new ed.) 1363 See first what fashion may bee found To pacifie his paines.
4. Kind, sort. Now rare. Also †in fashion to: of a kind to.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > kind or sort > [noun]
kindeOE
i-cundeOE
mannera1225
jetc1330
colour1340
hair1387
estrete1393
gendera1398
hedea1400
savourc1400
stockc1450
toucha1500
rate1509
barrel1542
suit1548
fashion1562
special1563
stamp1573
family1598
garb1600
espece1602
kidney1602
bran1610
formality1610
editiona1627
make1660
cast1673
tour1702
way1702
specie1711
tenor1729
ilk1790
genre1816
stripe1853
persuasion1855
the world > relative properties > kind or sort > in respect of kind [phrase] > of a kind to
in fashion to1562
the —— of this world1897
1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 73v Suche fasshon of figure is not in a Mirt-berry.
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice i. ii. 21 This reasoning is not in the fashion to choose mee a husband. View more context for this quotation
1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles xvi. 76 Gentlemen of all fashions . View more context for this quotation
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Panier,..a fashion of Trunke made of Wicker.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) v. iv. 61 Thou friend of an ill fashion . View more context for this quotation
1874 J. Morley On Compromise 68 Consider the difference between these two fashions of compromise.
5. † c. A method of doing anything. Obsolete.
a. Manner, mode, way, esp. in after, †of, in, †on, this, such a, my, his, etc. fashion. rare in plural.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > manner of action > [noun]
wayeOE
costOE
wise971
gatec1175
custc1275
form1297
guise13..
mannerc1300
kindc1330
assizea1375
plighta1393
makea1400
fashionc1400
reason?c1400
method1526
voye1541
how1551
way1563
garb1600
quality1600
mould1603
quomodo1623
modus1648
mode1649
turn1825
road1855
gait1866
methodology1932
stylee1982
c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 1100 & coronde wern alle of þe same fasoun.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xvii. 300 Palȝeonis Be stentit on syndry fassownys.
1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xiv. 351 To hevy a bourdon for to lede of this facyon.
1539 in Vicary's Anat. Bodie of Man (1888) App. iii. 173 [They] passed thorough the Cytie in good ordre after A warlyke facion.
1567–83 Sempill Ball. 98 Ay selling caill, The best fassoun I may.
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. iii. 111 He hath importun'd me with loue In honorable fashion . View more context for this quotation
1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts i. 358 We doe in all fashions of sorrow, bemoane ourselves.
1654 E. Wolley tr. ‘G. de Scudéry’ Curia Politiæ 7 I have governed my Subjects in such a fashion that [etc.].
1715 D. Defoe Family Instructor I. i. v. 128 After quite another Fashion.
1822 C. Lamb in London Mag. Mar. 282/1 Subjects serious in themselves, but treated after my fashion, non-seriously.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. viii. 58 In zigzag fashion..I continued to ascend.
b. In depreciatory sense, after, in, a or some fashion: somehow or another, in a sort, tolerably, not too well.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > manner of action > [phrase] > in this, some, any, etc., way > in some way > with implication of inadequacy
after this, what, etc., sort1551
in a sort1585
after, in, a or some fashion1608
in sort1788
1608 Bp. J. Hall Epist. II. iii. iii. 27 Whom yet Rome harbors, and, in a fashion, graces.
1867 G. MacDonald Ann. Quiet Neighbourhood I. i. 8 Work..which I can do after some fashion.
1869 A. Trollope He knew he was Right I. xvi. 126 Providence..has made me a lady after a fashion.
ΚΠ
1556 tr. J. de Flores Histoire de Aurelio & Isabelle sig. L5 And this is the fachone be the whiche al the reames and dominions..I presentley do posseade, haue beane gotten.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 42v To wynnowe it after the olde fashion with the winde.
1608 Bp. J. Hall Epist. I. i. vi. 63 To say nothing of the fashion of their cures.
1664 J. Playford Brief Introd. Skill Musick (ed. 4) i. 60 A good fashion of Singing.
1743 W. Ellis London & Country Brewer (ed. 2) II. 134 He would I believe alter his Mind and Fashion.
6.
a. Mode of action, bearing, behaviour, demeanour, ‘air’. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > behaviour > [noun]
tightc888
workOE
laitsc1225
rule?c1225
guise1303
conditionsc1374
actiona1393
governancea1393
governailc1425
port?a1439
fashion1447
dressa1450
governinga1450
walkingc1450
abearing?1454
deport1474
behaving1482
dealing1484
guidinga1500
demeanoura1513
behaviour?1521
walk?1567
daps1582
courses1592
deportment1601
behave?1615
deportation1616
containment1619
conduct1673
haviour1752
daddyism1984
1447 O. Bokenham Lyvys Seyntys (1835) 29 Be what similat facyoun Meche peple to his favour he drew.
c1522 T. More Treat. Memorare Nouissima in Wks. (1557) I. 76 With som good grace and pleasant fashion.
1601 J. Marston et al. Iacke Drums Entertainm. i. sig. B2v He..takes a whiffe With gracefull fashion.
1719 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth IV. 304 She keeps her cruel Fashion.
1853 W. M. Thackeray Eng. Humourists ii. 77 With such a grace, with such a fashion.
b. plural. Actions, gestures, ‘ways’. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > behaviour > [noun] > demeanour or bearing > as expressive of feelings or opinion
semblancea1400
fashions1569
air1663
1569 J. Rogers Glasse Godly Love 182 With spiteful wordes and wanton fashions.
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 37 He..gaue him selfe in facions to be somwhat like a tyrant.
1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Kk1 Whose eyes doe dwell vpon the faces and fashions . View more context for this quotation
1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xxxvi. 227 He shall beg my pardon, and promise better fashions.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > semblance, outward show > [noun]
hue971
glozea1300
showingc1300
coloura1325
illusionc1340
frontc1374
simulationc1380
visage1390
cheera1393
sign?a1425
countenance?c1425
study?c1430
cloak1526
false colour1531
visure1531
face1542
masquery?1544
show1547
gloss1548
glass1552
affectation1561
colourableness1571
fashion1571
personage?1571
ostentation1607
disguise1632
lustrementa1641
grimace1655
varnish1662
masquerade1674
guisea1677
whitewash1730
varnish1743
maya1789
vraisemblance1802
Japan1856
veneering1865
veneer1868
affectedness1873
candy coating1885
simulance1885
window dressing1903
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > semblance, outward show > have an appearance of, dissemble [verb (intransitive)] > act a part
to make fashion1571
personize1593
personate1623
theatrize1839
pose1840
play-act1938
1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (xl. 7) Worshipping God slyghtly for fashyon sake.
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iv. i. 17 Thou but leadest this fashion of thy mallice to the last houre of act. View more context for this quotation
1637 S. Rutherford Lett. (1863) I. cxix. 296 The memory of his love maketh me think Christ's glooms are but for the fashion.
1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 2nd Bk. Wks. xxii. 152 Panurge made the fashion of driving them [sc. dogs] away.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary II. i. 12 He..only just pits a bit on the plate to make fashion.
8. † b. In plural often = ‘Manners and customs’ (of nations), ‘ways’ (of men); chiefly in phrases, to know (the) fashions, to learn (the) fashions, to see (the) fashions. Obsolete.
a. A prevailing custom, a current usage; esp. one characteristic of a particular place or period of time.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > customs, values, or beliefs of a society or group > [noun] > custom of a society or group
i-wunec888
thewc893
wise971
law of (the) landc1175
customa1200
wonec1200
tidingc1275
orderc1300
usancea1325
usagec1330
usea1393
guisea1400
spacec1400
stylec1430
rite1467
fashion1490
frequentation1525
institution1551
tradition1597
mode1642
shibboleth1804
dastur1888
praxis1892
society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > customs, values, or beliefs of a society or group > [noun] > of specific period or time
mode1649
order of the day1791
fashion1821
1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xxvi. 544 A knighte..presented..a fayr knyff, after the facyon of the londe.
1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses sig. Dvii How vnseemelie..a fashion that is, let the wise iudge.
1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing i. i. 92 The fashion of the world is, to auoyd cost. View more context for this quotation
1615 Bp. J. Hall No Peace with Rome xiv, in Recoll. Treat. 870 Ingenuously, as his fashion is.
1764 O. Goldsmith Traveller 15 The mind still turns where shifting fashion draws.
1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles iii. xxiv. 112 Let every man Follow the fashion of his clan!
1821 J. Q. Adams in C. Davies Metr. Syst. (1871) iii. 125 The old fashion of 140 gallons..to the butt..was then restored.
a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) I. 366 New follies come, new faults, new fashions.
1876 J. B. Mozley Serm. preached Univ. of Oxf. i. 7 As a fashion of thought the idea..has..passed away.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > customs, values, or beliefs of a society or group > [noun]
moursc1250
manners?a1425
way of living1516
fashions1555
way of lifea1616
ways1628
customary1796
moeurs1854
culture1860
mores1898
society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > customs, values, or beliefs of a society or group > [verb (intransitive)] > know or observe customs
to know (the) fashions1555
to be in the fashion1569
1555 W. Watreman tr. J. Boemus (title) The fardle of facions.
1599 J. Minsheu Pleasant Dialogues Spanish & Eng. 36 in R. Percyvall & J. Minsheu Spanish Gram. I will die and liue with thee Peter, for thou knowest fashions.
1659 T. Burton Diary (1828) IV. 164 Any that come among you to see fashions.
a1716 R. South 12 Serm. (1717) VI. 213 To see the Country, and to learn Fashions; (as the Word goes).
1721 J. Strype Eccl. Memorials II. ii. v. 287 The king had sent him [Barnaby Fitz-Patric] thither to remain in his [the French king's] court to learn fashions.
c. spec. with regard to apparel or personal adornment.
ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > current or prevailing
fashiona1549
(la) haute couture1908
high fashion1958
fast fashion1975
a1549 A. Borde Fyrst Bk. Introd. Knowl. (1870) xiv. 159 I wyll not chaunge my olde fathers fashyon.
1576 G. Pettie Petite Pallace New fashions in cutting of beardes.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) iii. ii. 70 'Tis some od humor pricks him to this fashion, Yet oftentimes he goes but meane apparel'd. View more context for this quotation
1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 225 Fashions crosse the Seas as oft as the Packet Boat.
1713 R. Steele & E. Budgell in Guardian 23 Mar. 1/2 An Opportunity to introduce Fashions amongst our young Gentlemen.
1833 H. Martineau Brooke & Brooke Farm (ed. 3) viii. 105 To dress themelves in Miss Black's fashions.
1859 J. M. Jephson & L. Reeve Narr. Walking Tour Brittany xv. 241 A tall stout man, dressed in country fashion.
1865 T. Wright Hist. Caricature (1875) vi. 103 During the feudal ages, the fashions in France and England were always identical.
9.
a. Conventional usage in dress, mode of life, etc., esp. as observed in the upper circles of society; conformity to this usage. Often personified, or quasi-personified.The first quot. may belong to 2 or 6.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > fashionable society > [noun] > style or quality of
fashion1604
mode1668
bon-ton1747
haut ton1801
swellism1840
West Endism1841
swellishness1863
toffishness1873
mundanity1892
swellness1894
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. i. 156 The glasse of fashion, and the mould of forme. View more context for this quotation
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. v. 205 I am..become a courtly Tobacconist; more for fashion then for liking.
1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks III. Misc. v. ii. 288 The Man of Quality..must, for fashion-sake, appear in Love.
1740 C. Cibber Apol. Life C. Cibber iv. 57 Taste and fashion, with us, have always had wings.
1781 W. Cowper Expostulation 38 As Int'rest biass'd knaves, or fashion fools.
1793 T. Beddoes Observ. Nature & Cure Calculus 169 To break the spell of Fashion would be an atchievement.
1806 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 15 91 Fashion, that destroying angel.
1829 E. Bulwer-Lytton Devereux I. ii. vii. 218 Some better object of worship than the capricieuse of fashion.
1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 1 Aug. 10/2 Fashion and bon ton are by no means the same thing.
1892 Daily News 23 Apr. 3/5 Fashion is the all-absorbing subject.
b. Fashionable people; the fashionable world.
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society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > fashionable society > [noun]
higheOE
high life?a1518
towna1616
world1618
grand monde1673
society1693
beau monde1712
fine world1740
monde1765
tonc1770
high society1782
fashion1807
all the world1808
society1840
smart set1851
swelldom1854
Fifth Avenue1858
fashionabledom1859
haut monde1864
the big cheesea1910
higlif1911
haute Bohème1925
café society1937
jet set1949
beautiful people1950
1807 Salmagundi 25 Apr. 183 Days..When heart met heart in fashion's hall.
1873 R. Browning Red Cotton Night-cap Country ii. 125 Paris fashion's blame.
c. high fashion n. (chiefly attributive) haute couture; also transferred.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > current or prevailing
fashiona1549
(la) haute couture1908
high fashion1958
fast fashion1975
1958 Sunday Times 19 Oct. 25/1 ‘Line for line’ copies of French models are the current high fashion rage in New York.
1959 Observer 22 Mar. 3/8 Now that high fashion has overtaken the circular, manufacturers have two kinds of worry.
1959 News Chron. 10 Aug. 6/5 The high-fashion hats seen in Paris.
1963 Listener 28 Feb. 370/1 The Education Board of the R.I.B.A. now finds its stodgy, nineteenth-century type syllabus at least partly in tune with the high fashion of the day.
10. the fashion:
a. The mode of dress, etiquette, furniture, style of speech, etc., adopted in society for the time being. to lead, set the fashion: to be an example in dress, etc., for others to follow. to be in the fashion: to adopt the accepted style.
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the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun] > the or a prevailing fashion
gentryc1400
the fashion1569
mainstream1599
the trim1603
mood1646
mode1649
vogue1649
beauty1653
à la mode1654
turn1695
the kick1699
goût1717
thing1734
taste1739
ton1769
nick1788
the tippy1790
twig1811
latest1814
dernier mot1834
ticket1838
kibosh1880
last cry1887
le (or the) dernier cri1896
flavour of the month (or week)1946
vague1962
the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [verb (intransitive)] > follow fashion
to be in the fashion1569
modea1661
to be with it1931
swing1957
to get with it1961
society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > customs, values, or beliefs of a society or group > [verb (intransitive)] > know or observe customs
to know (the) fashions1555
to be in the fashion1569
the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [verb (intransitive)] > set fashion
to lead, set the fashion1762
trend-set1965
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 34 A scarlet Robe with a hoode (as the fashion then was).
1601 J. Marston et al. Iacke Drums Entertainm. i. sig. B3 Her loue is..as vnconstant as the fashion.
1604 King James VI & I Counterblaste to Tobacco sig. C It is come to be the fashion.
1612 S. Rowlands Knaue of Harts 13 Let vs haue standing Collers, in the fashion.
1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 77. ⁋1 Alexander the Great had a wry Neck, which made it the Fashion in his Court, to carry their Heads on one Side.
1762 O. Goldsmith Life R. Nash 10 Several persons qualified to lead the fashion both by birth and fortune.
1794 Ld. Nelson in Disptches & Lett. (ed. 2) I. 474 It is the fashion to say it would have been difficult to make a breach.
1838 A. De Morgan Ess. Probabilities Pref. 7 It was then very much the fashion..to publish results and conceal methods.
1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xvi. 22 The fashion being of course set by the upper [class].
b. The person or thing that it is fashionable to admire or discuss.
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the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun] > the or a prevailing fashion > fashionable thing or craze
new fangle1548
furor1704
fever1761
rage1780
go1784
the fashion1790
furore1790
fashionablea1800
craze1813
delirament1856
fad1881
fash1895
new thinga1911
flu1943
kick1946
1790 W. Combe Devil upon Two Sticks III. xi. 7 I should not be tempted to marry him, if he were not the fashion.
1824 T. Medwin Conv. with Byron (1832) I. 55 I was the fashion when she first came out.
1837 M. R. Mitford in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) III. v. 78 Another book..is much the fashion.
11. in, out of (the) fashion: in, out of, vogue or customary use, esp. in polite society; according or contrary to the customary rule or standard. Also to bring, come, grow into, go out of fashion.
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the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > in fashion [phrase]
in, out of (the) fashion1603
à la mode1637
in a style1781
up to the minute1909
the mind > attention and judgement > unfashionableness > [phrase]
in, out of (the) fashion1603
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. iii. vi. 539 The Hungarians did very auailefully bring them [sc. war-coaches] into fashion.
1614 Bp. J. Hall Recoll. Treat. 684 Shall nothing but our soules be out of the fashion?
a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) v. v. 5 Slaying is the word, It is a deed in fashion . View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) i. i. 153 Virginitie like an olde Courtier, weares her cap out of fashion . View more context for this quotation
a1627 W. Sclater Brief Comm. Malachy (1650) 103 Sins, when they are grown into fashion, are swallowed up as no sins.
1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 55 Let him..take heed, that the apparell he weares, be in fashion in the place where he resideth.
1719 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth V. 154 Would you be a Man in Fashion?
1728 W. Cleland Let. Publisher Pope's Dunciad 19 Out of power, or out of fashion.
1782 J. Priestley Hist. Corruptions Christianity II. ix. 157 Solitary pilgrimages were..much in fashion.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 179 The decorous gravity which had been thirty years before in fashion at Whitehall.
1850 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 532 1 Little dogs that had come into fashion.
1880 M. E. Braddon Just as I Am vii Aunt Dora's gowns..were always in the fashion.
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society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > [noun] > member of
optimate1574
gentle blood1575
patrician1631
grandlinga1637
(man, woman) of fashion1702
Brahmani1704
ruffled shirt1754
aristocrat1789
thoroughbred1817
Brahmin1823
big bug1826
ruffle shirt1830
ruffle-shirter1842
blue blood1850
aristo1864
upper1955
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > fashionable society > [noun] > member of
(man, woman) of fashion1702
fashionablea1800
taste-meter1814
presentee1822
societarian1841
viveur1845
fashion-fly1868
socialite1909
celebutante1939
jet-setter1959
Sloanie1982
1490 Caxton's Blanchardyn & Eglantine (1962) xlviii. 187 They..defended theym vygoryously, as men of highe facion.
1597 Sir R. Cecil in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. III. 43 A Gentleman of excellent fashion.
a1618 W. Raleigh Apol. Voy. Guiana 7 in Judicious & Sel. Ess. (1650) It is strange that men of fashion and Gentlemen should so grosly bely their owne knowledge.
c1675 in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 354 Persons of good fashion..that have a desire to see us at dinner.
1702 W. J. tr. C. de Bruyn Voy. Levant x. 37 Greeks of Fashion, who are not for herding with the Populace.
1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews I. i. vi. 35 She resolved to preserve all the Dignity of the Woman of Fashion to her Servant.
1752 D. Hume Ess. & Treat. (1777) I. 204 Augustus was obliged..to force men of fashion into the married state.
1755 E. Moore in World No. 151 (1772) III. 278 A woman cannot be a woman of fashion till she has lost her reputation.
1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. ix. 80 Women of very great distinction and fashion from town.
1800 E. Hervey Mourtray Family II. 76 A person of her fashion and figure.
1824 T. Medwin Conv. with Byron (1832) II. 50 I..was in favour with Brummell (and that was alone enough to make a man of fashion).
Compounds
C1. General attributive.† b. Forming with preceding adjective a quasi-adjective or adjectival phrase. Obsolete.
a. Simple attributive.
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fashion-artist n.
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1903 A. Bennett Truth about Author x. 120 I could instruct a fashion-artist.
fashion-designer n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > [noun] > carrying out specific processes > design > designer
fashioner1631
modiste1802
couturière1818
modist1852
creator1901
fashion-designer1909
1909 Westm. Gaz. 15 Mar. 5/1 The very red about which fashion-designers are decided.
fashion-journal n.
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society > communication > journalism > journal > periodical > [noun] > magazine > fashion
fashion magazine1879
fashion-paper1885
fashion-journal1905
1905 E. Wharton House of Mirth ii. ix. 446 The newspapers, the fashion-journals.
fashion-letter n.
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1894 E. L. Shuman Steps into Journalism 154 Jennie June..who is known all over the country for her syndicate fashion letters.
1903 A. Bennett Truth about Author x. 120 A Paris fashion-letter.
fashion magazine n.
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society > communication > journalism > journal > periodical > [noun] > magazine > fashion
fashion magazine1879
fashion-paper1885
fashion-journal1905
1879 M. E. Braddon Vixen II. xiv. 256 Your trousseau should be..described in the fashion magazines.
1966 H. W. Yoxall Fashion of Life viii. 75 The majority of middle-aged women still have distressingly little sense of style... For them the fashion magazines might just as well not exist.
fashion mania n.
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1829 Westm. Rev. 11 399 This practice of blushing for unmodish friends..belongs to the fashion-mania.
fashion-model n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > modelling or displaying clothing > [noun] > model
showgirl1816
show-woman1848
mannequin1893
trier on1895
model1904
fashion-model1962
model girl1962
male model1975
1962 John o' London's 22 Mar. 291/1 An ageing fashion-model.
1970 P. Moyes Who saw her Die? i. 12 She was thirty-three years old, with the figure of a fashion model.
fashion-modelling n.
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1964 C. Barber Ling. Change Present-day Eng. v. 118 Fashion-modelling has been built up..as the ideal career.
fashion show n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > modelling or displaying clothing > [noun] > fashion show or display
collection1921
fashion week1934
fashion show1938
1938 Collier's 8 Jan. 13 This is, believe it or not, a fashion show.
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fashion-conscious adj.
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the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [adjective] > fashion-conscious or following fashion
fashion-monging1600
fashionable1609
fashionly1613
modish1652
mody1701
knowing1768
fadding1864
downtown1914
cool1918
fashion-conscious1951
switched-on1964
trendoid1979
fresh1984
kewl1990
1951 M. McLuhan Mech. Bride 75/2 Mallarmé and Joyce refused to be distracted by the fashion-conscious sirens of contents and subject matter.
1960 Guardian 15 July 8/2 The fashion-conscious visitor to Paris.
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a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) i. i. 4 What fashion Cloaths the Roman officers..used.
1712 E. Cooke Voy. S. Sea 85 The great Square..has old Fashion Houses on the East and South Sides.
c. Forming with a preceding noun or adjective an adverbial phrase. Cf. -wise comb. form.
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a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. xiv He had deuysed newe Engynes after to werre facion.]
1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island iv. xxxii. 45 Made like an Ivie leaf, broad-angle-fashion.
1670 J. Narborough Jrnl. in Acct. Several Late Voy. (1711) i. 66 Flint stones, neatly made broad Arrow-fashion.
1710 London Gaz. No. 4748/4 A Silver Hungary Water Bottle Flask fashion gilt.
1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Capon Fashion [in Archery], the same as Bob-tail.
1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery xiii. 129 Take the Leg of a..small Beef..cut it Ham-fashion.
1812 M. Edgeworth Absentee viii, in Tales Fashionable Life VI. 96 Laying the outermost part of your feather this fashion, next to your hook.
1870 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (ed. 2) I. App. 613 The tardy bridal was done Christian fashion.
1886 R. C. Leslie Sea-painter's Log 216 Picked up the puppy, holding it baby fashion in his arms.
d. Objective.
fashion-following n.
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1621 S. Ward Happinesse of Pract. (1627) 43 Sabbath-breaking, and fashion-following.
fashion-fancying adj.
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1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 25 These fashion-fansying wits, Are empty thinbrain'd shells.
e. Instrumental.
fashion-bound adj.
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1949 A. Koestler Insight & Outlook xxi. 297 Implicit, sophisticated, or fashion-bound forms of artistic expression.
fashion-driven adj.
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1891 R. Kipling Light that Failed iv. 69 The easy applause of a fashion-driven public.
fashion-favoured adj.
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1896 Westm. Gaz. 2 July 4/3 Fashion-favoured stuffs.
fashion-fettered adj.
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1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 26 Sept. 11/2 Fashion-fettered fops.
fashion-led adj.
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1785 W. Cowper Tirocinium in Task 779 Whom do I advise? the fashion-led . View more context for this quotation
fashion-minded adj.
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1938 Chatelaine Oct. 2/1 The upward sweep has become of intense importance to the fashion-minded.
1940 Manch. Guardian Weekly 30 Aug. 142 British manufacturers are continually producing new samples to meet the requirements of the most fashion-minded overseas wearers.
fashion-ridden adj.
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1897 G. B. Shaw Let. 28 May (1965) 770 The silly visionary fashion-ridden theatres.
C2. Special combinations. Also fashion-monger n.
fashion-book n. a book describing and illustrating new fashions in dress.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > current or prevailing > fashion book
fashion-book1840
mode-book1860
1840 Fiddle Faddle Fashion Bk. 8/1 To depart from Fashion in a Fashion-Book is so shocking a thing that we tremble at the very idea of it.
1853 E. C. Gaskell Cranford vii. 134 Three or four handsomely bound fashion-books ten or twelve years old.
1878 Harper's Mag. Apr. 764/2 The pictures were merely an improved reproduction of the men and women of the fashion-books.
1907 B. M. Croker Company's Servant viii. 74 I have brought back..a fashion-book, ribbons, gloves, and lots of sweets.
fashion-fly n. figurative one who sports in the beams of fashion.
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society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > fashionable society > [noun] > member of
(man, woman) of fashion1702
fashionablea1800
taste-meter1814
presentee1822
societarian1841
viveur1845
fashion-fly1868
socialite1909
celebutante1939
jet-setter1959
Sloanie1982
1868 Ld. Houghton Sel. from Wks. 63 Many a careless fashion-fly.
fashion house n. a business establishment for the display and sale of high-quality clothes.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > modelling or displaying clothing > [noun] > fashion house
maison1909
maison de couture1933
fashion house1958
society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shops selling clothes, cloth, or accessories > fashionable or high-end
maison1909
maison de couture1933
madam shop1952
boutique1953
fashion house1958
1958 London Mag. Dec. 33 A woman of character and elegance who ran a fashion house on one of the streets near Central Park.
1970 D. Wheatley Gateway to Hell iv. 44 She..became the top model in a leading fashion house.
fashion-paper n. a journal of fashionable life; esp. a journal specializing in current fashions in dress.
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society > communication > journalism > journal > periodical > [noun] > magazine > fashion
fashion magazine1879
fashion-paper1885
fashion-journal1905
1885 ‘E. D. Gerard’ Waters Hercules xxx She snatched up the fashion-paper.
1901 F. H. Burnett Making of Marchioness i. i. 4 You might get on to one of the second-class fashion-papers to answer ridiculous questions about house~keeping or wall-papers or freckles.
1913 R. Kipling Lett. of Trav. (1920) 246 She showed me what looked like a fashion-paper print of a dress-stuff.
1925 L. P. Smith Words & Idioms iii. 127 Even in fashion-papers we read of ‘creations’ in millinery.
fashion-picture n. a representation of fashionable costumes.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > modelling or displaying clothing > [noun] > representation of fashionable costumes
fashion-picture1884
1884 Sat. Rev. 14 June 780/1 The subject..is a mere fashion-picture.
fashion piece n. Nautical (see quots.).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > rear part of vessel > [noun] > shaping timbers
fashion piece1627
fashion-timber-
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. ii. 2. From it [sc. the Stern-post] doth rise the two fashion peeces, like a paire of great hornes.
1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Fashion-pieces are those two Timbers which describe the breadth of the Ship at the Stern.
1830 F. Marryat King's Own III. ix. 171 My..fashion-pieces, were framed out.
1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 117 Fashion-pieces, the timbers..fashioning the after-part of the ship in the plane of projection, by terminating the breadth and forming the shape of the stern.
fashion plate n. ‘a pictorial design showing the prevailing style or new style of dress’ (W.); also applied to other kinds of fashionable display.
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1851 A. O. Hall Manhattaner 21 She unrolls the fashion plate.
1859 L. A. Wilmer Our Press Gang 332 Fashion-plate magazines.
1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Fashion plate.
1891 Stamp Collector Dec. 48 The latest philatelic ‘fashion plates’ tell us that the new idea of collecting postal cards is to collect them direct from the countries issuing them.
1908 Westm. Gaz. 26 May 4/2 Altering the outline of each new season's model, with the result that the preceding ones are..rendered old-fashioned... We do not want the fashion-plate methods to become general amongst motor-constructors.
1967 D. Yarwood Eng. Costume (ed. 3) viii. 211 We now have innumerable fashion plates and magazines.
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fashion-forward adj. designating clothing, a person, etc., at the cutting edge of fashion.
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1948 Los Angeles Times 26 July i. 16 (advt.) Our own nylons in our own Bel-Air package..aristocratic, a product of nylon dreams..exclusive and fashion forward.
2003 Independent 9 Oct. 7/5 It is a formula that had led to Balenciaga being the most desired label by those who like to consider themselves ‘fashion forward’.
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fashion police n. colloquial a group of people enforcing a particular dress code; esp. (humorous) a notional group of self-appointed experts who habitually comment on the fashion sense of others, usually to condemn them for a perceived lack of style.
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1986 Chron.-Telegram (Elyria, Ohio) 29 Aug. b7/1 He wanted them to get ready for next week, when they become fashion police, enforcers of a new dress code that bans the ‘three Ds’—clothing that is dangerous, distracting and disruptive.
1988 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 16 Mar. 20 In Washington you get the feeling that if people fall out of line and, say, wear yellow shirts, or skirts above the knee, the fashion police will rush right over to cover them with a Burberry.
2001 Cosmopolitan Dec. 208 It used to be that the fashion police would flag you down if you wore creamy colors after labor day.
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fashion victim n. usually depreciative a person who slavishly follows trends, esp. in clothing fashion.
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1984 Adweek (U.S.) 7 May 39/1 Slick, monied punks show you can wear diamonds without being a Fashion Victim.
1992 R. Graef Living Dangerously i. 39 When the precious jeans were finally on board, he sheepishly conceded there was nothing he could point to which distinguished them from any others—except the label... I felt there was some value in hinting to them they might be fashion victims rather than connoisseurs.
1999 N.Y. Times Mag. 14 Nov. 87 (caption) I also had just gotten an asymmetrical buzz cut at Astor Place. I was a total MTV fashion victim.
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fashion week n. a series of events, typically lasting for a week, at which high-end fashion houses and designers showcase new collections.Often with preceding word specifying the location.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > modelling or displaying clothing > [noun] > fashion show or display
collection1921
fashion week1934
fashion show1938
1934 N.Y. Times 22 May 25/2 A petition to Mayor LaGuardia for a week to be set aside in August to be called New York Fashion Week was voted for at a meeting of the Mayfair Mannequin Academy yesterday.
1992 New Republic 11 May 11/2 This moment marked the unofficial opening of fashion week—the first of dozens of shows crammed into the next five days.
2019 D. Thomas Fashionopolis i. 20 The flashiest, most photographable pieces..Katrantzou saved for her ‘show collection,’ which she presented during London Fashion Week in September.
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fashionv.
/ˈfaʃn/, U.S. /ˈfæʃən/ 1. † b. Said of the constituent parts of anything.† c. To make good-looking; to beautify. Obsolete.
a. transitive. To give fashion or shape to; to form, mould, shape (either a material or immaterial object). Also, to fashion out.
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the world > space > shape > shape or give shape to [verb (transitive)]
i-schapeOE
shapec1000
afaite?c1225
feigna1300
form1340
deformc1384
proportionc1384
throwc1390
figure?a1400
parec1400
mould1408
fashion1413
portrayc1450
effigure1486
porture1489
moul1530
shapen1535
frame1553
proportionate1555
efform1578
inform1590
formate1599
to shape out1600
infigure1611
figurate1615
immodelize1649
effinge1657
effigiate1660
configure1857
carpenter1884
1413 J. Lydgate Pilgr. of Sowle (1483) iv. xxx. 78 That this statua be faciound duely and fourmed as it sholde.
c1500 Melusine (1895) 50 Tentes..so meruayllously facyoned.
1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason sig. Lvjv Leather, when it is made, or fashioned for the foote, is called a shooe.
1608 D. Tuvill Ess. Politicke, & Morall f. 66v To polish and fashion out his then rough-hewen fortune.
1611 Bible (King James) Job xxxi. 15 Did not one fashion vs in the wombe? View more context for this quotation
1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. ii. 46 Every one..who shall go about to fashion in his Understanding any simple Idea.
1697 K. Chetwood Life Virgil in J. Dryden tr. Virgil Wks. sig. *4 A course Stone is presently fashion'd.
1714 J. Gay Fan i. 7 Here the loud hammer fashions female toys.
1812 H. Smith & J. Smith Rejected Addr. 80 Our stage is so prettily fashion'd for viewing.
1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice I. i. vii. 57 Young people fashion and form each other.
1863 C. Lyell Geol. Evid. Antiq. Man 18 Fragments of rude pottery, fashioned by the hand.
1878 Musque Poets 76 The wish I might have fashioned died In dreams.
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1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) i. xx. 51 A Cavity fashioned by the Os sacrum, the Hip and Share-bones.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautify [verb (transitive)]
fairOE
highta1200
embellishc1385
beautifyc1425
decore1490
beauty1495
embeauty1523
decorate1530
fashion1557
busk1573
gracify?1578
embrave1579
handsome1592
pulchrify1797
orchidize1872
lovelify1935
bellify-
bellish-
1557 New Test. (Geneva) Epist. **j He was disfiguered to fashion vs, he dyed for our life.
2. † b. To contrive, manage. Obsolete.
a. To form, frame, make. rare.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > [verb (transitive)] > fashion, shape, or form
i-schapeOE
shapeOE
markc1330
forge1382
kneadc1400
frame?1518
fashion?1553
labour1578
appropriate1594
to shape out1600
elaborate1611
produce1611
moulda1616
fabric1623
coin1627
timber1646
laborate1662
condition1853
?1553 tr. Pope Pius II Hist. Ladye Lucres & Eurialus sig. A.iv Her browes bente, facyoned wyth fewe heares.
1608 D. Tuvill Ess. Politicke, & Morall f. 46v Favonnus..had reason..to fashion them this reply.
1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes v. 257 Many have to perish, fashioning a path through the impassable!
1863 H. W. Longfellow Prelude xiii, in Tales Wayside Inn 15 The instrument..Was..Fashioned of maple and of pine.
1880 ‘E. Kirke’ Life J. A. Garfield 13 Bringing his saw and jackplane again into play, he fashioned companies..out of maple blocks.
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the mind > will > intention > planning > plan [verb (transitive)] > devise, invent, or design
contrive1377
fashionc1540
c1540 Pilgrim's Tale 79 in F. Thynne Animaduersions (1875) App. i. 79 Then could he fation in the best wyce Many a deynte dyche.
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 i. iii. 291 You and Douglas..As I will fashion it shall happily meete. View more context for this quotation
1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iii. ii. 195 They haue conioynd..To fashion this false sport. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iv. ii. 240 His going thence, which I will fashion to fall out betweene twelue and one. View more context for this quotation
3.
a. To give a specified shape to; to model according to, after, or like (something); to form †into (the shape of something); to shape into or to (something). Also reflexive and †intransitive for reflexive.
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the world > space > shape > shape or give shape to [verb (transitive)] > put into a certain shape
form1297
figurec1430
shape1457
cast1512
fashion1526
mould1667
set1678
modela1704
throw1804
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Rom. viii. 29 Fasshioned unto the shape of his sonne.
1585 Abp. E. Sandys Serm. xxii. 376 We are exhorted to fashion our selues according to that similitude and likenesse, which is in him.
1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iii. iii. 129 Fashioning them [sc. the Hotblouds] like Pharaoes souldiours. View more context for this quotation
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 151 Coines..fashioned like point-aglets.
1673 N. Grew Idea Phytol. Hist. iii. 117 The Mould, about which the other more passive Principles gathering themselves, they all consort and fashion to it.
1774 J. Bryant New Syst. (new ed.) I. 467 This they fashioned to a conical figure.
1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) II. 149 Some of them are fashioned into the figure of shells.
1809 N. Pinkney Trav. South of France 242 Chairs fashioned according to the designs.
1866 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices I. xx. 508 A smith to fashion his steel into picks or awls.
1872 W. Bagehot Physics & Polit. (1876) 216 Communities which are fashioned after the structure of the elder world.
b. With complement.
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1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear ii. 171 All with me's meete, that I can fashion fit. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) iii. vii. 65 When Talbot hath..fashion'd thee that Instrument of Ill. View more context for this quotation
a. To change the fashion of; to modify, transform. With complement like, or const. to. Obsolete.
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the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > transform [verb (transitive)] > in form or appearance
makec1175
transfigurea1340
transformc1340
overcasta1387
translatea1393
shapec1400
resolvea1450
transfigurate?a1475
fashion1528
converta1530
to bless into1534
redact1554
trans-shape1575
deduce1587
star1606
deducta1627
Pythagorize1631
to run into ——a1640
transpeciate1643
transmogrify1656
throw1824
transfeature1875
squirm1876
recontour1913
1528 W. Tyndale Obed. Christen Man f. xcvijv When a man fealeth..him selfe..altered and fascioned lyke vnto Christe.
1547 Certain Serm. or Homilies Falling from God i, in J. Griffiths Two Bks. Homilies (1859) i. 84 Be fashioned to him in all goodness requisite to the children of God.
1576 A. Fleming tr. C. Hegendorphinus in Panoplie Epist. 382 Fashion yourselfe to sobernesse.
a1592 H. Smith Serm. (1866) 312 Fashion thyself to Paul.
1611 Bible (King James) Phil. iii. 21 Who shall change our vile bodie, that it may bee fashioned like vnto his glorious body. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) ii. i. 219 Send him but hither, and Ile fashion him. View more context for this quotation
1753 S. Foote Englishman in Paris Epil. His Roughness she'll soften, his Figure she'll fashion.
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the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > corruption > [verb (transitive)]
forbraidc888
besmiteeOE
awemOE
filec1175
soila1250
envenomc1300
beshrewc1325
shrew1338
corrumpa1340
corrupt1382
subvertc1384
tache1390
poison1395
infect?c1400
intoxicatec1450
deprave1482
corrup1483
rust1493
turkess?1521
vitiate1534
prevary?1541
depravate1548
fester?1548
turkish1560
wry1563
taint1573
disalter1579
prevaricate1595
sophisticate1597
invitiate1598
fashion1600
tack1601
debauch1603
deturpate1623
disaltern1635
ulcer1642
deboise1654
Neronize1673
demoralize1794
bedevil1800
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > forgery, falsification > forge, falsify [verb (transitive)]
forgec1330
counterfeitc1386
feign1484
flamc1500
adulterate?1526
mint1593
fashion1600
fudge1674
sham1699
doctor1750
fake1884
to fake up1885
phoney1940
bodgie1969
1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing i. iii. 27 It better fits my bloud to be disdain'd of all, then to fashion a cariage to rob loue from any. View more context for this quotation
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry V i. ii. 14 God forbid..That you should fashion, frame, or wrest the same.
5. † b. To present the form of; to represent. Obsolete.
a. To give (a person or thing) a fashion or form suitable to or to do (something); to accommodate, adapt to. Also reflexive and intransitive for reflexive. Now rare.
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the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > adaptation or adjustment > adapt or adjust [verb (transitive)]
afaite?c1225
ablea1400
reducec1450
fashion1526
adapt1531
framec1537
handsome1555
accommode1567
apt?1578
square1578
fit1580
coapt1586
commodate1595
suit1595
dispose1602
adjust1611
agence1633
adaptate1638
plya1657
1526 Bible (Tyndale) 1 Cor. ix. 22 In all thynge I fasshioned my silfe to all men.
1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing v. iv. 88 A halting sonnet..Fashioned to Beatrice. View more context for this quotation
1608 D. Tuvill Ess. Politicke, & Morall f. 88v There are some that fashion themselves to nothing more, then how to become speculative into another.
a1613 E. Brerewood Enq. Langs. & Relig. (1614) vi. 40 It was spoken corruptly, according as the peoples tongues would fashion to it.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) iii. i. 135 How shall I fashion me to weare a cloake? View more context for this quotation
1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII iv. ii. 50 This Cardinall..Was fashion'd to much Honor. From his Cradle He was a Scholler. View more context for this quotation
1623 P. Massinger Duke of Millaine ii. i. sig. E4v Lyes..fashion'd to so damnable a purpose.
1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 529 We fashion our selves to extoll the ages past.
1770 O. Goldsmith Deserted Village 146 Doctrines fashioned to the varying hour.
1871 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (1879) II. i. 3 These priests fashioned that which they did not understand to their respective wants and wishes.
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society > communication > representation > [verb (transitive)] > of the representation
representc1450
describea1536
adumbrate1537
fashion1590
to figure for1596
depaint1598
maintain1598
depicture1650
depict1871
1590–6 E. Spenser (title) The Faerie Queene, Disposed into twelve books fashioning XII Morall vertues.
c. intransitive. To bring oneself, ‘have the face’ (to do something). dialect. (Cf. quot. a1616 at sense 5a.)
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the world > action or operation > doing > act or do [verb (intransitive)] > have the audacity to do something
fashion1847
1847 E. Brontë Wuthering Heights I. ii. 28 Aw woonder hagh yah can faishion tuh stand thear i' idleness.
1847 E. Brontë Wuthering Heights I. iv. 78 She did fly up—asking how he could fashion to bring that gipsy brat into the house.
1883 T. Lees Easther's Gloss. Dial. Almondbury & Huddersfield ‘Why don't you go and ask him for it?’ ‘I cannot fashion’.
6. Nautical. (See quot. 1780) Obsolete.
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1780 Falconer's Universal Dict. Marine (rev. ed.) at Architecture The knees..fashion the transoms to the ship's side. [supra: The knees, which connect the beams to the sides.]
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