fashion

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< Middle English facioun < Old French faceon, fazon, façon (“‘fashion, form, make, outward appearance’”) < Latin factio (“‘a making’”) < facere (“‘to make’”); see fact. Cf. faction, a doublet of fashion.

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  Rhymes: -æʃən

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fashion (countable and uncountable; plural fashions)

1. (countable) A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons.
2. (countable) A style, or manner, in which to do something.
3. (uncountable) Popular trends.

   Check out the latest in fashion.

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to fashion (third-person singular simple present fashions, present participle fashioning, simple past and past participle fashioned)

1. To make, build or construct.
   • 2005, Plato, Sophist, translation by Lesley Brown, 235b:

     ... a device fashioned by arguments against that kind of prey.

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• refashion

[edit] External links

• fashion in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• fashion in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911