fashion
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Alternative forms [edit]
- fascion (obsolete)
Etymology [edit]
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 factiō (“a making”), from faciō (“do, make”); see fact. Compare faction, a doublet of fashion.
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Noun [edit]
Wikipedia fashion (countable and uncountable; plural fashions)
- (countable) A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons.
- (countable) A style, or manner, in which to do something.
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter V
- When 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”, BBC Sport:
- It shell-shocked the home crowd, who quickly demanded a response, which came midway through the half and in emphatic fashion.
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter V
- (uncountable) Popular trends.
- Check out the latest in fashion.
Derived terms [edit]
Terms derived from the noun "fashion"
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Translations [edit]
current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons
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style, or manner, in which to do something
popular trends
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Verb [edit]
fashion (third-person singular simple present fashions, present participle fashioning, simple past and past participle fashioned)
- To make, build or construct.
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IX
- I 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, 235b:
- ... a device fashioned by arguments against that kind of prey.
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IX
Derived terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
to make, build or construct
External links [edit]
- fashion in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- fashion in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
