façon

American  

[fa-sawn] / faˈsɔ̃ /

noun

French.

• façons
  plural

1. a fashion; manner; style.

2. workmanship; make.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• façons
  plural

Etymology

Origin of façon

First recorded in 1795–1805

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

façon façons

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

But you're so matter-of-fact, Archdeacon, when it suits your purpose, that one can't trust oneself to any façon de parler.

From Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope

"I say, don't you want to accompany me in my wanderings, in a sans façon way?"

From The Pobratim A Slav Novel by P. Jones

A long fast is a good sauce, and I need not assert that I began sans façon.

From Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver by Brantz Mayer

You can't imagine, of course, dear, because you do not know him well enough, but he has ways and façons of coaxing.

From His Hour by Elinor Glyn

Both were façons de parler, and the word "provisional" saved them from ridicule they would otherwise have deserved.

From Six days of the Irish Republic A Narrative and Critical Account of the Latest Phase of Irish Politics by Louis George Redmond-Howard