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Fashion   /fˈæʃən/   Listen
Fashion

noun
1.
How something is done or how it happens.  Synonyms: manner, mode, style, way.  "His rapid manner of talking" , "Their nomadic mode of existence" , "In the characteristic New York style" , "A lonely way of life" , "In an abrasive fashion"
2.
Characteristic or habitual practice.
3.
The latest and most admired style in clothes and cosmetics and behavior.
4.
Consumer goods (especially clothing) in the current mode.
verb
(past & past part. fashioned; pres. part. fashioning)
1.
Make out of components (often in an improvising manner).  Synonym: forge.



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"Fashion" Quotes from Famous Books



... heart good to see him in his old clothes for once. He seems to have entirely overlooked the fact that he was to spend this vacation being pretty useful on the farm, and not sighing at your heels dressed in the height of fashion as he understands it. He's wearing out the mat in front of the bureau, he stands there so much, and I've hardly had a chance for a shave or a tub since he got here. He locks himself in the bathroom and spends hours manicuring his nails and putting bay-rum on his hair. He—All right, ...
— The Old Gray Homestead • Frances Parkinson Keyes
... work for social ends, is to be wrought only by social means. There mind must conspire with mind. Time is required to produce all the good we aim at. Our patience will achieve more than our force. If I might venture to appeal to what is so much out of fashion in Paris, I mean to experience, I should tell you that in my course I have known, and, according to my measure, have coperated with great men; and I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended ...
— The American Union Speaker • John D. Philbrick
... go on a voyage to the remoter islands of the Eastern seas, and their adventures are told in a truthful and vastly interesting fashion. The descriptions of Mr. Ebony, their black comrade, and of the scenes of savage life, are full ...
— Miss Ashton's New Pupil - A School Girl's Story • Mrs. S. S. Robbins
... old father he was! Only Beth wished he had looked more hopeful and enthusiastic over the change in her life. Aunt Prudence had been told before dinner, and she had taken it in a provokingly quiet fashion that perplexed Beth. What was the matter with them all? Did they think Clarence the pale-faced boy that he looked? They were quite mistaken. Clarence was ...
— Beth Woodburn • Maud Petitt
... otherwise. I am the man you see here plain enough: Grant I'm a beast, why, beasts must lead beasts' lives! Suppose I own at once to tail and claws; 350 The tailless man exceeds me: but being tailed I'll lash out lion fashion, and leave apes To dock their stump and dress their haunches up. My business is not to remake myself, But make the absolute best of what God made. Or—our first simile—though you prove me doomed To a viler berth still, to the steerage-hole, The sheep-pen or the pig-stye, I should strive To make ...
— Men and Women • Robert Browning


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