newfashion

English

Alternative forms

• new-fashion

Etymology

From new +‎ fashion.

Verb

newfashion (third-person singular simple present newfashions, present participle newfashioning, simple past and past participle newfashioned)

1. To modernise; remodel in the latest style.
   • 1744, William Oldys, Edward Harley Oxford (Earl of), The Harleian miscellany:

     From the duke they would have taken his birthright; the church and religion they would have cast in a new mould; the bishops and clerks they would have new-fashioned, if not utterly laid aside; banished many of the nobles; [...]

   • 1867, William Hylton Dyer Longstaffe, Memoirs of the life of Mr. Ambrose Barnes:

     He used to observe that poets and orators abound most in the corruptest times, and we have been fining and newfashioning the English tongue, whilst English manners are become wild.

   • 1881, John Addington Symonds, Renaissance in Italy:

     Not a few were given to him by the old romancers; but these he has new-fashioned to his needs.

   • 1977, John Boening, The Reception of classical German literature in England:

     Since the period of original composition, I have new-fashioned this introductory stanza after comparing it with Mr. Sotheby, to whom I am accordingly indebted for much of its present structure.

Adjective

newfashion (comparative more newfashion, superlative most newfashion)

1. Recently come into fashion; new-fashioned.
   • 1957, Margaret Elizabeth Bell, Daughter of Wolf House:

     Killerwhale House already knows what to do in these 'newfashion' times.

   • 1964, Men's wear, volume 149:

     An entirely newfashion concept.

   • 1975, America's textiles: Reporter/bulletin edition: Volume 4:

     The dresses will be narrower at the hips, midriffs bare and the classic skirt will take on newfashion impetus.