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new-fashioned

American  
[noo-fash-uhnd, nyoo-] / ˈnuˈfæʃ ənd, ˈnju- /

adjective

  1. lately come into fashion; made in a new style, fashion, etc.

  2. up-to-date; modern; progressive.


new-fashioned British  

adjective

  1. of or following a recent design, trend, etc

"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

Etymology

Origin of new-fashioned

First recorded in 1605–15


Example Sentences

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Yet the singer has built his growing audience the new-fashioned way.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2025

Marketing nostalgia, companies like Bunkhouse are bullish on new-fashioned, mid-20th century motels and the relaxed indoor-outdoor atmosphere they afford, whether we’re in a pandemic or not.

From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2021

If everything about that track—its disorienting beauty, its churchiness, its strange dolphin utopia—felt like blessed redemption through vocal deconstruction, DS2 is new-fashioned devil’s music, all existential dread and thrill.

From Slate ● Dec. 23, 2015

However, the new-fashioned way is free and open source.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 16, 2012

He would explain to Arthur that he had pleaded the wound so as to come unexpectedly, in disguise, because that was one of the new-fashioned things to do.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

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