Lexic.us

Definition of Fashion

1. Noun. How something is done or how it happens. "In an abrasive fashion"

2. Verb. Make out of components (often in an improvising manner). "They fashion the cape "; "She fashioned a tent out of a sheet and a few sticks"

3. Noun. Characteristic or habitual practice.

4. Noun. The latest and most admired style in clothes and cosmetics and behavior.

5. Noun. Consumer goods (especially clothing) in the current mode.

Definition of Fashion

1. n. The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; as, the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.; workmanship; execution.

2. v. t. To form; to give shape or figure to; to mold.

Definition of Fashion

1. Noun. A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons. ¹

2. Noun. A style, or manner, in which to do something. ¹

3. Noun. Popular trends. ¹

4. Verb. To make, build or construct. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fashion

1. to give a particular shape or form to [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Fashion

1. 1. To form; to give shape or figure to; to mold. "Here the loud hammer fashions female toys." (Gay) "Ingenious art . . . Steps forth to fashion and refine the age." (Cowper) 2. To fit; to adapt; to accommodate; with to. "Laws ought to be fashioned to the manners and conditions of the people." (Spenser) 3. To make according to the rule prescribed by custom. "Fashioned plate sells for more than its weight." (Locke) 4. To forge or counterfeit. Fashioning needle, a needle used for widening or narrowing the work and thus shaping it. Origin: Cf. F. Faconner. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fashion

fascist fascista fascisti fascistic fascistically fascists fascitis fascitises fash fashed

fasheries fashery fashes fashin fashing fashion (current term) 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

Literary usage of Fashion

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

1. Essays, Scientific, Political, and Speculative by Herbert Spencer (1891)
"One gentleman on the platform divides his hair down the centre, instead of on one side ; another brushes it back off the forehead, in the fashion known as ..."

2. Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare, William Aldis Wright (1894)
"Thou knowest that the fashion of a doublet, or a hat, or a cloak, ... Seest thou not, I say, what a deformed thief this fashion is ? how giddily a' turns ..."

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