单词 | fashion plate |
释义 | > as lemmasfashion plate fashion plate n. ‘a pictorial design showing the prevailing style or new style of dress’ (W.); also applied to other kinds of fashionable display. ΚΠ 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. < as lemmas |
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