fashion plate
Americannoun
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a person who consistently wears the latest style in dress.
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an illustration showing the prevailing or new fashion in clothes.
noun
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an illustration of the latest fashion in dress
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a fashionably dressed person
Etymology
Origin of fashion plate
First recorded in 1850–55
Example Sentences
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Nan Kempner sat nearby and so, too, did the fashion plate and philanthropist Judith Peabody, crowned with her signature bouffant nimbus.
From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2022
Barbie Gilbert is no Pamela Anderson look-alike or a celebrity fashion plate, as earlier Barbie iterations usually were.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 13, 2021
He would grow to become something of a fashion plate, but his aunt, Trina Allen, said he wanted nothing to do with suits like the one his grandma dressed him in for Easter one year.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 23, 2021
A drab housewife becomes a Paris fashion plate, then meets her ex-husband.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 1, 2021
He was something of a fashion plate, always well dressed and forever drawing the eyes of the young women around him, though he did not seem to have a steady girl.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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