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Definition of Fashionability
1. [n -TIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fashionability
Literary usage of Fashionability
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Rag-bag: A Collection of Ephemera by Nathaniel Parker Willis (1855)
"... Trenton Falls and the Canadas—a journey in June being as established a
fashionability as a visit to Newport or Saratoga in July and August. ..."
2. A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose, from American and Foreign Authors by Anna L. Ward (1889)
"fashionability is a kind of elevated vulgarity. 1521 George Darley: Works of
Beaumont and Fletcher. Introduction. Fashion is an odd jumble of contradictions ..."
3. The Frenchwoman of the Century: Fashions by Octave Uzanne (1887)
"... came the dlite of fashionability and of literature ; Lamartine, Alfred de
Musset, Eugene Sue, Balzac, ..."
4. Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources by James Wood (1899)
"Jw. Fas est et ab hoste doceri—It is right to derive instruction even from an enemy.
Ovid. fashionability is a kind of elevated vulgarity. ..."
5. Smoke and Mirrors: The Canadian Tobacco War by Rob Cunningham (1996)
"Luxury-length cigarettes (100 and 120 millimetre) suggest fashionability and
should also be banned. Perhaps tobacco products could be required to have a ..."
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