Definition of Fashion plate

1. Noun. A man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance.

Exact synonyms: Beau, Clotheshorse, Dandy, Dude, Fop, Gallant, Sheik, Swell
Specialized synonyms: Cockscomb, Coxcomb, Macaroni
Generic synonyms: Adult Male, Man
Specialized synonyms: Beau Brummell, Brummell, George Bryan Brummell
Derivative terms: Dandify

2. Noun. A plate illustrating the latest fashion in dress.
Generic synonyms: Plate

Definition of Fashion plate

1. Noun. A picture, usually a full-page advertisement, showing the latest fashion in clothing. ¹

2. Noun. (idiomatic) A person who dresses in especially stylish fashions. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fashion Plate

fashion
fashion'd
fashion-contest
fashion-forward
fashion arbiter
fashion business
fashion consultant
fashion contest
fashion designer
fashion designers
fashion house
fashion houses
fashion industry
fashion model
fashion models
fashion police
fashion sense
fashion show
fashion statement
fashion victim
fashion victims
fashionability
fashionable
fashionableness
fashionables
fashionably
fashionably late
fashioned
fashionedness

Literary usage of Fashion plate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Father and Son: Biographical Recollections by Edmund Gosse (1907)
"... underneath her crinoline, which was blown out like a bladder, as in some extravagant old fashion- plate. Whether her feet touched the bottom of the font ..."

2. What to Wear? by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1873)
"OUR fashion plate. BUT after all, as Mr. Mill asks of political economy, can the dress-reform " do nothing, but only object to every thing, and demonstrate ..."

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