fashion
[fash-uhn]
- a prevailing custom or style of dress, etiquette, socializing, etc.: the latest fashion in dresses.
- conventional usage in dress, manners, etc., especially of polite society, or conformity to it: the dictates of fashion; to be out of fashion.
- manner; way; mode: in a warlike fashion.
- the make or form of anything: He liked the fashion of the simple, sturdy furniture.
- a kind; sort: All fashions of people make up the world.
- Obsolete. workmanship.
- Obsolete. act or process of making.
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- to give a particular shape or form to; make: The cavemen fashioned tools from stones.
- to accommodate; adjust; adapt: doctrines fashioned to the varying hour.
- Shipbuilding. to bend (a plate) without preheating.
- Obsolete. to contrive; manage.
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- after/in a fashion, in some manner or other or to some extent; in a makeshift, unskillful, or unsatisfactory way: He's an artist after a fashion.
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Origin of fashion
1250–1300; Middle English facioun shape, manner < Anglo-French faço(u)n, façun, Old French faceon < Latin factiōn- (stem of factiō) a doing, company. See faction1
Synonyms
See more synonyms for on Thesaurus.com1. mode; fad, rage, craze. Fashion, style, vogue imply popularity or widespread acceptance of manners, customs, dress, etc. Fashion is that which characterizes or distinguishes the habits, manners, dress, etc., of a period or group: the fashions of the 18th century. Style is sometimes the equivalent of fashion, but also denotes conformance to a prevalent standard: to be in style; a chair in the Queen Anne style. Vogue suggests the temporary popularity of certain fashions: this year's vogue in popular music. 4. shape, cut, pattern, figure. 8. frame, construct, mold. 9. suit, fit.
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manufacturetailorfitdeviseconstructerectforgeshapeproducebuildcarvemoldadaptplotcutformfabricatemakeworkcontriveExamples from the Web for fashioning
Contemporary Examples
Like drawing tattoos, sewing earmuffs, or fashioning model airplanes from old chip bags?
How a ‘Real Housewife’ Survives Prison: ‘I Don’t See [Teresa Giudice] Having a Cakewalk Here’Michael Howard
January 6, 2015
Indeed, fashioning a working arrangement between Assad and the moderate Sunnis should be a joint Russo-American initiative.
She calmly joined the others in fashioning floatation devices from plastic bags in case the blaze forced them to flee.
Love began in a wondrous whirl, fashioning a kind of prototype.
When he was 11, his father built him a banjo, at first fashioning the head out of groundhog hide.
Historical Examples
These are the second causes which God used as his ministers in fashioning the world.
TimaeusPlato
Thus England was fashioning a new system and defining a new policy.
The Fathers of New EnglandCharles M. Andrews
We are fashioning our life too much after the conduct of the children of Israel.
I am, as it were, a creature of your own fashioning, and I owe to you that which I never can repay.
Japhet in Search of a FatherFrederick Marryat
One half expects to see him fashioning a gorget or a sword on his anvil.
Children of the TenementsJacob A. Riis
fashion
- style in clothes, cosmetics, behaviour, etc, esp the latest or most admired style
- (as modifier)a fashion magazine
- (modifier) (esp of accessories) designed to be in the current fashion, but not necessarily to last
- manner of performance; mode; wayin a striking fashion
- (in combination)crab-fashion
- a way of life that revolves around the activities, dress, interests, etc, that are most fashionable
- shape, appearance, or form
- sort; kind; type
- after a fashion or in a fashion
- in some manner, but not very wellI mended it, after a fashion
- of a low order; of a sorthe is a poet, after a fashion
- after the fashion of like; similar to
- of fashion of high social standing
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- to give a particular form to
- to make suitable or fitting
- obsolete to contrive; manage
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Word Origin
C13 facioun form, manner, from Old French faceon, from Latin factiō a making, from facere to make
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Word Origin and History for fashioning
fashion
n.
c.1300, "shape, manner, mode," from Old French façon (12c.) "face, appearance; construction, pattern, design; thing done; beauty; manner, characteristic feature," from Latin factionem (nominative factio) "group of people acting together," literally "a making or doing," from facere "to make" (see factitious).
Sense of "prevailing custom" is from late 15c.; that of "style of attire" is from 1520s.
To call a fashion wearable is the kiss of death. No new fashion worth its salt is wearable. [Eugenia Sheppard, "New York Herald Tribune," Jan. 13, 1960]
Fashion plate (1851) originally was "full-page picture in a popular magazine showing the prevailing or latest style of dress," in reference to the typographic "plate" from which it was printed. Transfered sense of "well-dressed person" had emerged by 1920s.
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fashion
v.
early 15c.; see fashion (n.). Related: Fashioned; fashioning.
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Idioms and Phrases with fashioning
fashion
see after a fashion; in fashion.
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