NOUN
- a plate illustrating the latest fashion in dress
- a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance
How To Use fashion plate In A Sentence
- The fashion plate was papped in brogues only a few weeks ago. Times, Sunday Times
- Fashion plates were supposed to illustrate the season's most covetable and drool-worthy styles, and inspire everyone to imitate them as soon as resources allowed.
- Fashion plate Nicole Kidman has been known to accessorize her gorgeous gowns with glasses for reading at the awards podiums.
- A fashion plate like his girlfriend?
- The best illustrated edition of Jane Austen uses contemporary fashion plates, engravings of carriages, town scenes and so on.
- A couple of painted wooden busts of early 16th-century South Netherlandish fashion plates—probably some of St. Ursula's martyred companions—conceal skull fragments under complicated hairstyles and modish clothing. Where Revered Relics Repose