façon

American  

[fa-sawn] / faˈsɔ̃ /

noun

French.

façons plural

1. a fashion; manner; style.

2. workmanship; make.

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Other Word Forms

Inflected Forms

noun

• façons
  plural

Etymology

Origin of façon

First recorded in 1795–1805

Example Sentences

For the French, these arrangements were not only accepted but even encouraged by an official edict that governed mariage à la façon du pays, or “the custom of the country.”

From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2022

My father drove the same car in his later years and, since he died before Sara met him, I thought she could commune with him on a kind of spiritual voyage à la façon anglaise.

From New York Times • Jul. 10, 2015

Mine's but a mere façon de parler: just as we talk to one another about our coats:—we never say, "Who's your tailor?"

From John Bull The Englishman's Fireside: A Comedy, in Five Acts by Colman, George

La marque des Sorciers est tantost come vne piste ou pied de lieure, & tantost d'autre façon.

From The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology by Murray, Margaret Alice

Barthélemy Minguet of Brécy was tried in 1616: 'Enquis, de quelle façon sa femme fut au Sabbat la premiere fois.

From The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology by Murray, Margaret Alice