fashion plate

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noun

a person who consistently wears the latest style in dress.

an illustration showing the prevailing or new fashion in clothes.

Nearby words

fash, fashion, fashion coordinator, fashion house, fashion icon, fashion plate, fashion victim, fashion-forward, fashionable, fashioner, fashionista

Origin of fashion plate

First recorded in 1850–55

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Examples from the Web for fashion plate

As usual, he was dressed with the precision of a fashion-plate.
The Angel of Terror|Edgar Wallace
Never had they promenaded so proudly to martial music or waltzed so perspiringly with the fashion-plate officers whom they adored.
Villa Elsa|Stuart Henry
And oh, the beautiful business-like precision of these fashion-plate soldiers!
Jimmie Higgins|Upton Sinclair
She consults the fashion-plate oftener than her Bible; she visits the dry-goods shop and the milliner oftener than the church.
Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women|George Sumner Weaver

The subaltern opposite, however, was immaculate as the fashion-plate of a Sackville Street tailor.
Cavalry of the Clouds|Alan Bott

British Dictionary definitions for fashion plate

fashion plate

noun

an illustration of the latest fashion in dress

a fashionably dressed person

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fashion plate

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fashion plate

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