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Fashion

noun

1. a popular or the latest style of clothing, hair, decoration, or behaviour: the latest Parisian fashions

[mass noun] the production and marketing of new styles of clothing and cosmetics: [as modifier]: a fashion magazine

2. a manner of doing something: the work is done in a rather casual fashion

verb

[with object]

make into a particular form: the bottles were fashioned from green glass

(fashion something into) use materials to produce (something): the skins were fashioned into boots and shoes

Phrases

after a fashion

to a certain extent but not perfectly: he could read after a fashion

after (or in) the fashion of

in a manner similar to: she took servants for granted after the fashion of wealthy girls

in (or out of) fashion

popular (or unpopular) and considered (or not considered) to be smart at the time in question: the Sixties look is back in fashion extreme designs go out of fashion as quickly as they come in

Derivatives

fashioner

noun

Origin:

Middle English (in the sense 'make, shape, appearance', also 'a particular make or style'): from Old French façon, from Latin factio(n-), from facere 'do, make'