fashion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæʃən/
rhymes: -æʃən
Forms: form: fashions
form: fascion
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English facioun, from Anglo-Norman fechoun (compare Jersey Norman faichon), variant of Old French faceon, fazon, façon (“fashion, form, make, outward appearance”), from Latin factiō (“a making”), from faciō (“do, make”); see fact. Doublet of faction.
Senses: examples: text: The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons.
examples: text: Check out the latest in fashion.
text: He had always been interested in fashion, so he decided to take a sewing class.
text: the innocent diversions in fashion
ref: 1693, [John Locke], “§208”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], →OCLC:
text: 1874-1896, Herbert Spencer, Principles of Sociology Part IV
As now existing, fashion is a form of social regulation analogous to constitutional government as a form of political regulation.
glosses: Popular trends, especially in clothing; the industry that designs clothing and sometimes other related items.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter V, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
text: It shell-shocked the home crowd, who quickly demanded a response, which came midway through the half and in emphatic fashion.
ref: 2011 October 1, Phil Dawkes, “Sunderland 2 - 2 West Brom”, in BBC Sport:
text: Ophelia: My lord, he hath importuned me with love in honourable fashion.
Lord Polonius: Ay, fashion you may call it; go to, go to.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
glosses: A style or manner in which something is done.
examples: text: the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.
text: The fashion of his countenance was altered.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 9:29:
text: I do not like the fashion of your garments.
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vi]:
glosses: The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; workmanship; execution.
examples: text: men of fashion
glosses: Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding.
Derived terms: after a fashion
alternative fashion
antifashion
antifashionable
circular fashion
clean fashion
cyberfashion
doggy fashion
fashionable
fashionably
fashional
fashion collection
fashion-conscious
fashion contest
fashioncore
fashion design
fashion designer
fashion doll
fashionese
fashion-forward
fashion house
fashionism
fashionist
fashionista
fashionize
fashionless
fashion model
fashionmonger
fashion parade
fashion piece
fashion plate
fashion police
fashion sense
fashion show
fashion statement
fashion tape
fashion victim
fashionwear
fashion week
fashionwise
fashiony
fast-fashion
fast fashion
fatshion
high fashion
in fashion
like it's going out of fashion
lolita fashion
Lolita fashion
new-fashioned
nonfashion
old-fashion
old-fashioned
out of fashion
parrot fashion
retrofashion
shipshape and Bristol fashion
slave to fashion
slow fashion
so fashion
tailor-fashion
trashion
ultra-fast fashion
woman-fashion
woman fashion
Related terms: fact
faction
factional
factor
factorial
factory