Fashion
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -æʃən
Alternative forms
- fascion obsolete
Origin
From Middle English facioun, from Anglo-Norman, from Old Northern French féchoun (compare Jèrriais faichon), variant of Old French faceon, fazon, façon ("fashion, form, make, outward appearance"), from Latin factiŠ("a making"), from faciŠ("do, make"); see fact. Compare faction, a doublet of fashion.
Noun
fashion
(countable and uncountable; plural fashions)- (countable) A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, The China Governess Chapter 1, The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years.
- (uncountable) Popular trends.Check out the latest in fashion.
- John Lockethe innocent diversions in fashion
- H. SpencerAs now existing, fashion is a form of social regulation analogous to constitutional government as a form of political regulation.
- (countable) A style or manner in which something is done.
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter VWhen it had advanced from the wood, it hopped much after the fashion of a kangaroo, using its hind feet and tail to propel it, and when it stood erect, it sat upon its tail.
- 2011, October 1, Phil Dawkes, Sunderland 2 - 2 West Brom, It shell-shocked the home crowd, who quickly demanded a response, which came midway through the half and in emphatic fashion.
- The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; workmanship; execution.the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.
- Bible, Luke ix. 29The fashion of his countenance was altered.
- ShakespeareI do not like the fashion of your garments.
- (dated) Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding.men of fashion
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Verb
- To make, build or construct.
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot (novel) Chapter IXI have three gourds which I fill with water and take back to my cave against the long nights. I have fashioned a spear and a bow and arrow, that I may conserve my ammunition, which is running low.
- 2005, Plato, Sophist, translation by Lesley Brown, :... a device fashioned by arguments against that kind of prey.
- (dated) To make in a standard manner; to work.
- John LockeFashioned plate sells for more than its weight.
- (dated) To fit, adapt, or accommodate to.
- SpenserLaws ought to be fashioned to the manners and conditions of the people.
- (obsolete) To forge or counterfeit.