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fashionista

[ fash-uh-nee-stuh ]

/ ˌfæʃ əˈni stə /

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noun

a very fashionable person, especially one who works in the fashion industry.

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Nearby words

fashion plate, fashion victim, fashion-forward, fashionable, fashioner, fashionista, fashiony, fashoda, fashoda incident, fasnacht, fassa

Origin of fashionista

1990–95; fashion + Italian or Spanish -ista -ist

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Examples from the Web for fashionista

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British Dictionary definitions for fashionista

fashionista

/ (ˌfæʃəˈniːstə) /

noun

informal a person who follows trends in the fashion industry obsessively and strives continually to adopt the latest fashions

Word Origin for fashionista

C20: from fashion + -ista as in Sandinista

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Word Origin and History for fashionista

fashionista

n.

by 1996, from fashion + -ista (see -ist). In the same sense were fashionist (1610s, alive as late as 1850); fashion-monger (1590s); fashion-fly (1868).

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper