Fashion

• POS: Noun, Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: fash=ion

CIDE DICTIONARY

Fashion, n. [OE. fasoun, facioun, shape, manner, F. facon, orig., a making, fr. L. factio a making, fr. facere to make. See Fact, Feat, and cf. Faction.].

•  The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; as, the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.; workmanship; execution.  [1913 Webster]

  "The fashion of his countenance was altered."  [1913 Webster]

  "I do not like the fashion of your garments."  [1913 Webster]
•  The prevailing mode or style, especially of dress; custom or conventional usage in respect of dress, behavior, etiquette, etc.; particularly, the mode or style usual among persons of good breeding; as, to dress, dance, sing, ride, etc., in the fashion.  [1913 Webster]

  "The innocent diversions in fashion."  [1913 Webster]

  "As now existing, fashion is a form of social regulation analogous to constitutional government as a form of political regulation."  [1913 Webster]
•  Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding; as, men of fashion.  [1913 Webster]
•  Mode of action; method of conduct; manner; custom; sort; way.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

After a fashion, to a certain extent; of a sort; sort of. -- Fashion piece (Naut.), one of the timbers which terminate the transom, and define the shape of the stern. -- Fashion plate, a pictorial design showing the prevailing style or a new style of dress.

Fashion, v. t. [Cf. F. faconner.].

•  To form; to give shape or figure to; to mold.  [1913 Webster]

  "Here the loud hammer fashions female toys."  [1913 Webster]

  "Ingenious art . . .
  Steps forth to fashion and refine the age."  [1913 Webster]
•  To fit; to adapt; to accommodate; -- with to.  [1913 Webster]

  "Laws ought to be fashioned to the manners and conditions of the people."  [1913 Webster]
•  To make according to the rule prescribed by custom.  [1913 Webster]

  "Fashioned plate sells for more than its weight."  [1913 Webster]
•  To forge or counterfeit.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

Fashioning needle (Knitting Machine), a needle used for widening or narrowing the work and thus shaping it.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Fashion, n. & v.
--n.
1 the current popular custom or style, esp. in dress or social conduct.
2 a manner or style of doing something (in a peculiar fashion).
3 (in comb.) in a specified manner (walk crab-fashion).
4 fashionable society (a woman of fashion).
--v.tr. (often foll. by into) make into a particular or the required form.

Idiom

after (or in) a fashion as well as is practicable, though not satisfactorily. in (or out of) fashion fashionable (or not fashionable) at the time in question.

Derivative

fashioner n.

Etymology

ME f. AF fasun, OF fa{ccedil}on, f. L factio -onis f. facere fact- do, make

DEVIL DICTIONARY

Fashion

n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.

A king there was who lost an eye
In some excess of passion;
And straight his courtiers all did try
To follow the new fashion.

Each dropped one eyelid when before
The throne he ventured, thinking
'Twould please the king. That monarch swore
He'd slay them all for winking.

What should they do? They were not hot
To hazard such disaster;
They dared not close an eye -- dared not
See better than their master.

Seeing them lacrymose and glum,
A leech consoled the weepers:
He spread small rags with liquid gum
And covered half their peepers.

The court all wore the stuff, the flame
Of royal anger dying.
That's how court-plaster got its name
Unless I'm greatly lying.
Naramy Oof

THESAURUS

Fashion

MO, Platonic form, Platonic idea, aesthetic form, affectation, algorithm, anatomy, angle, apparel, approach, archetype, architectonics, architecture, arrangement, array, art form, aspect, assemble, attack, attire, attitude, bedizenment, block out, bon ton, build, building, carve, cast, chic, chisel, clothes, clothing, command of language, complexion, compose, composition, compound, concoct, configuration, conformation, conformity, constitution, construct, construction, consuetude, contrive, convention, costume, course, craze, create, creation, cry, custom, cut, design, devise, drapery, dress, dressing, drift, duds, effect, efform, eidolon, elaborate, erect, established way, etiquette, evolve, exaggeration, expression of ideas, extrude, fabric, fabricate, fabrication, facet, fad, fashionable, fashioning, fatigues, feathers, feature, feeling for words, fig, figuration, figure, fix, folkway, forge, forging, form, form of speech, formalize, format, formation, formulate, found, frame, fudge together, furore, garb, garments, gear, genre, gestalt, get up, getup, grace of expression, grandiloquence, guise, habiliment, habit, hew, image, imago, impression, in fashion, indite, inflation, inner form, investiture, investment, knead, knock out, lay out, layout, lick into shape, light, likeness, line, line of action, lineaments, linen, lines, literary style, look, make, make up, makeup, making, mania, manner, manner of speaking, manner of working, mannerism, manners, manufacture, matrix, mature, means, method, methodology, mint, modality, mode, mode of expression, mode of operation, mode of procedure, model, modus, modus operandi, mold, molding, mores, mould, observance, order, organic structure, organism, organization, patch together, pattern, patterning, peculiarity, personal style, phase, phasis, physique, piece together, plan, plot, practice, praxis, prefabricate, prepare, prescription, procedure, proceeding, process, produce, production, proper thing, prototype, put together, put up, rage, rags, raiment, raise, rear, reference, regard, respect, rhetoric, ritual, robes, rough out, roughcast, roughhew, routine, run up, sculpt, sculpture, seeming, semblance, sense of language, set, set up, setup, shape, shaping, side, significant form, simulacrum, slant, social convention, sportswear, stamp, standard behavior, standard usage, standing custom, strain, structure, structuring, style, stylistic analysis, stylistics, system, tack, tailor, taste, technique, tectonics, tendency, tenor, texture, the drill, the grand style, the how, the in thing, the last word, the latest thing, the plain style, the rage, the sublime, the way of, thermoform, thing, threads, time-honored practice, tissue, togs, toilette, ton, tone, total effect, tradition, trend, trick, trim, turn, turn out, twig, twist, type, usage, use, vein, vestment, vesture, view, viewpoint, vogue, warp and woof, way, wear, wearing apparel, weave, web, what is done, whomp up, wise, wont, wonting, work, write

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Fashion

Habit

N habit, habitude, assuetude, assuefaction, wont, run, way, common state of things, general state of things, natural state of things, ordinary state of things, ordinary course of things, ordinary run of things, matter of course, beaten path, beaten track, beaten ground, prescription, custom, use, usage, immemorial usage, practice, prevalence, observance, conventionalism, conventionality, mode, fashion, vogue, etiquette, order of the day, cry, conformity, consuetude, dustoor, one's old way, old school, veteris vestigia flammae, laudator temporis acti, rule, standing order, precedent, routine, red-tape, red-tapism, pipe clay, rut, groove, cacoethes, bad habit, confirmed habit, inveterate habit, intrinsic habit, addiction, trick, training, seasoning, second nature, acclimatization, knack, habitual, accustomary, prescriptive, accustomed, of daily occurrence, of everyday occurrence, consuetudinary, wonted, usual, general, ordinary, common, frequent, everyday, household, garden variety, jog, trot, well-trodden, well-known, familiar, vernacular, trite, commonplace, conventional, regular, set, stock, established, stereotyped, prevailing, prevalent, current, received, acknowledged, recognized, accredited, of course, admitted, understood, conformable, according to use, according to custom, according to routine, in vogue, in fashion, in, with it, fashionable, wont, used to, given to, addicted to, attuned to, habituated, in the habit of, habitue, at home in, seasoned, imbued with, devoted to, wedded to, hackneyed, fixed, rooted, deep-rooted, ingrafted, permanent, inveterate, besetting, naturalized, ingrained, habitually, always, as usual, as is one's wont, as things go, as the world goes, as the sparks fly upwards, more suo, more solito, ex more, as a rule, for the most part, usually, generally, typically, most often, most frequently, cela s'entend, abeunt studia in mores, adeo in teneris consuescere multum est, consuetudo quasi altera natura, hoc erat in more majorum, How use doth breed a habit in a man!, magna est vis consuetudinis, morent fecerat usus.

Method

N method, way, manner, wise, gait, form, mode, fashion, tone, guise, modus operandi, MO, procedure, path, road, route, course, line of way, line of road, trajectory, orbit, track, beat, tack, steps, stair, staircase, flight of stairs, ladder, stile, perron, bridge, footbridge, viaduct, pontoon, steppingstone, plank, gangway, drawbridge, pass, ford, ferry, tunnel, pipe, door, gateway, channel, passage, avenue, means of access, approach, adit, artery, lane, loan, alley, aisle, lobby, corridor, back-door, back-stairs, secret passage, covert way, vennel, roadway, pathway, stairway, express, thoroughfare, highway, turnpike, freeway, royal road, coach road, broad highway, King's highway, Queen's highway, beaten track, beaten path, horse road, bridle road, bridle track, bridle path, walk, trottoir, footpath, pavement, flags, sidewalk, crossroad, byroad, bypath, byway, cut, short cut carrefour, private road, occupation road, highways and byways, railroad, railway, tram road, tramway, towpath, causeway, canal, street, speedway, adv, how, in what way, in what manner, by what mode, so, in this way, after this fashion, one way or another, anyhow, somehow or other, by way of, via, in transitu, on the high road to, hae tibi erunt artes.

State

N state, condition, category, estate, lot, ease, trim, mood, pickle, plight, temper, aspect, dilemma, pass, predicament, constitution, habitude, diathesis, frame, fabric, stamp, set, fit, mold, mould, mode, modality, schesis, form, tone, tenor, turn, trim, guise, fashion, light, complexion, style, character, conditional, modal, formal, structural, organic, conditionally, as the matter stands, as things are, such being the case.

Fashion

N fashion, style, ton, bon ton, society, good society, polite society, monde, drawing-room, civilized life, civilization, town, beau monde, high life, court, world, fashionable world, gay world, Vanity Fair, show, manners, breeding, air, demeanor, savoir faire, gentlemanliness, gentility, decorum, propriety, biens_eance, conventions of society, Mrs, Grundy, punctilio, form, formality, etiquette, point of etiquette, dress, custom, mode, vogue, go, rage, prevailing taste, fad, trend, bandwagon, furore, thing, in thing, craze, chic, last word, man of fashion, woman of fashion, man of the world, woman of the world, height of fashion, pink of fashion, star of fashion, glass of fashion, leader of fashion, arbiter elegantiarum, the beautiful people, the fashion set, upper ten thousand, elite, smart set, the four hundred, in crowd, fashionable, in fashion, a la mode, comme il faut, admitted in society, admissible in society, presentable, conventional, genteel, well-bred, well mannered, well behaved, well spoken, gentlemanlike, gentlemanly, ladylike, civil, polite, polished, refined, thoroughbred, courtly, distingue, unembarrassed, degage, janty, jaunty, dashing, fast, modish, stylish, chic, trendy, recherche, newfangled, all the rage, all the go, with it, in, faddish, in court, in full dress, in evening dress, en grande tenue, fashionably, for fashion's sake, a la francaise, a la parisienne, a l' anglaise, a l' americaine, autre temps autre mauers, chaque pays a sa guise.

Form

N form, figure, shape, conformation, configuration, make, formation, frame, construction, cut, set, build, trim, cut of one's jib, stamp, type, cast, mold, fashion, contour, structure, plasmature, feature, lineament, turn, phase, posture, attitude, pose, morphism, isomorphism, forming, formation, figuration, efformation, sculpture, plasmation, formed, plastic, fictile, formative, fluid, plasmic, isomorphous, pleomorphic, protean, changeable.

VB form, shape, figure, fashion, efform, carve, cut, chisel, hew, cast, rough hew, rough cast, sketch, block out, hammer out, trim, lick into shape, put into shape, model, knead, work up into, set, mold, sculpture, cast, stamp, build.