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

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Etymology

Origin of façon

First recorded in 1795–1805

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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

The astonishment they had exhibited arose simply from the sans façon manner of his coming amongst them; and on the instant after it disappeared, giving place to a feeling of a different kind.

From The Boy Slaves by Mayne Reid

The Press Bureau's account, I expect, compresses a great deal into "Subsequently our force took up a position lower down the river" or some such façon de parler.

From Letters from Mesopotamia in 1915 and January, 1916, from Robert Palmer, who was killed in the Battle of Um El Hannah, June 21, 1916, aged 27 years by Robert Stafford Arthur Palmer

He had a nice, direct smile though his speech and manners were a trifle breezy, confident, and sans façon.

From The Dark Star by William Dodge Stevens

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

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

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