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[ UK /fˈæʃən/ ]
[ UK /fˈæʃən/ ]
VERB
-
make out of components (often in an improvising manner)
She fashioned a tent out of a sheet and a few sticks
NOUN
- consumer goods (especially clothing) in the current mode
- the latest and most admired style in clothes and cosmetics and behavior
- characteristic or habitual practice
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how something is done or how it happens
in the characteristic New York style
their nomadic mode of existence
a lonely way of life
her dignified manner
in an abrasive fashion
his rapid manner of talking
How To Use fashion In A Sentence
- My aunt is very old-fashioned.
- Here we did everything but lift up the old-fashioned coal-burning Aga cooker, which must have weighed a couple of tons at least. A CONVICTION OF GUILT
- There is a great deal of feeling and perhaps some bitterness, but do you not all agree with me that it is quite possible, since there is a fashion of armament in Europe, and since there has been no withdrawal on the part of the Admiralty from the stand taken by the First Lord some months ago, to have the entire Canadian people approach this situation in a calm and in an impartial manner? Canada and the Empire
- She would have taken a great deal of trouble that her daughters might not be a flounce behind the fashions, and was so far-seeing in her motherly anxieties, that she junketed herself and Major Buller to many an entertainment, where they were bored for their pains, that the extensive acquaintance might ensure to the girls partners, both for balls and for life when they came to require them. Six to Sixteen: A Story for Girls
- They use cheap materials and actually destroy a lot of decent furniture and fittings in the process - if something is considered unfashionable it gets taken out or painted over.
- If you had to make one for a particular fashion house, what would it be like? Times, Sunday Times
- She was a slim blonde girl in her twenties who might have stepped out of a fashion advertisement in a women's magazine.
- We now read that men are to be targeted with a range of pink summer wearables by the high-street fashion chains 'cashing in' on the growing phenomenon of ' metrosexuality.
- Unless you've been hiding under an unfashionable rock for the past year, you'll have the word camel firmly rooted in your fashionista lexicon. Philippa Young: Camel: It Doesn't Matter if You're Black or White
- Eventually almost all postwar writers whose work departs significantly from convention have come to be labeled "postmodernist," a term that has definable meaning but that also has been used as an aid in this lashing-out, a way to further disparage such writers both by lumping them together indiscriminately and by identifying their work as just another participant in literary fashion. Postmodernism
