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fash·ion

[fash-uh

n] Pronunciation Key

–noun

1.	a prevailing custom or style of dress, etiquette, socializing, etc.: the latest fashion in dresses.

2.	conventional usage in dress, manners, etc., esp. of polite society, or conformity to it: the dictates of fashion; to be out of fashion.

3.	manner; way; mode: in a warlike fashion.

4.	the make or form of anything: He liked the fashion of the simple, sturdy furniture.

5.	a kind; sort: All fashions of people make up the world.

6.	Obsolete. workmanship.

7.	Obsolete. act or process of making.

–verb (used with object)

8.	to give a particular shape or form to; make: The cavemen fashioned tools from stones.

9.	to accommodate; adjust; adapt: doctrines fashioned to the varying hour.

10.	Shipbuilding. to bend (a plate) without preheating.

11.	Obsolete. to contrive; manage.

—Idiom

12.	after or in a fashion, in some manner or other or to some extent; in a makeshift, unskillful, or unsatisfactory way: He's an artist after a fashion.

[Origin: 1250–1300; ME facioun shape, manner < AF faço(u)n, façun, OF faceon < L factiōn- (s. of factiō) a doing, company. See faction

]

—Related forms

fash·ion·less, adjective

—Synonyms 1. mode; fad, rage, craze. Fashion, style, vogue imply popularity or widespread acceptance of manners, customs, dress, etc. Fashion is that which characterizes or distinguishes the habits, manners, dress, etc., of a period or group: the fashions of the 18th century. Style is sometimes the equivalent of fashion, but also denotes conformance to a prevalent standard: to be in style; a chair in the Queen Anne style. Vogue suggests the temporary popularity of certain fashions: this year's vogue in popular music. 4. shape, cut, pattern, figure. 8. frame, construct, mold. 9. suit, fit.

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fash·ion (fāsh'ən) Pronunciation Key
n.

The prevailing style or custom, as in dress or behavior: out of fashion.
Something, such as a garment, that is in the current mode: a swimsuit that is the latest fashion.
The style characteristic of the social elite: a man of fashion.
1. Manner or mode; way: Set the table in this fashion.
2. A personal, often idiosyncratic manner: played the violin in his own curious fashion.
Kind or variety; sort: people of all fashions.
Shape or form; configuration.

tr.v. fash·ioned, fash·ion·ing, fash·ions

To give shape or form to; make: fashioned a table from a redwood burl.
To train or influence into a particular state or character.
To adapt, as to a purpose or an occasion; accommodate.
Obsolete To contrive.

[Middle English facioun, from Old French façon, appearance, manner, from Latin factiō, factiōn-, a making, from factus, past participle of facere, to make, do; see dhē- in Indo-European roots.]

fash'ion·er n.

Synonyms: These nouns refer to a prevailing or preferred manner of dress, adornment, behavior, or way of life at a given time. Fashion, the broadest term, usually refers to what accords with conventions adopted by polite society or by any culture or subculture: a time when long hair was the fashion.
Style is sometimes used interchangeably with fashion, but like mode often stresses adherence to standards of elegance: traveling in style; miniskirts that were the mode in the late sixties.
Vogue is applied to fashion that prevails widely and often suggests enthusiastic but short-lived acceptance: a video game that was in vogue a few years ago. See Also Synonyms at method.

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
fashion (n.)

c.1300, "shape, manner, mode," from O.Fr. façon, from L. factionem (nom. factio) "group of people acting together," lit. "a making or doing," from facere "to make" (see factitious). Sense of "prevailing custom" is from c.1489; that of "style of attire" is from 1529. The verb is first recorded 1413. Fashionable in the sense of "stylish" is from 1608.

"To call a fashion wearable is the kiss of death. No new fashion worth its salt is wearable." [Eugenia Sheppard, "New York Herald Tribune," Jan. 13, 1960]

Fashion plate (1851) originally was "full-page picture in a popular magazine showing the prevailing or latest style of dress," in ref. to the "plate" from which it was printed. Transf. sense of "well-dressed person" had emerged by 1920s.

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fashion
noun
1.	how something is done or how it happens; "her dignified manner"; "his rapid manner of talking"; "their nomadic mode of existence"; "in the characteristic New York style"; "a lonely way of life"; "in an abrasive fashion" [syn: manner]
2.	characteristic or habitual practice
3.	the latest and most admired style in clothes and cosmetics and behavior
4.	consumer goods (especially clothing) in the current mode
verb
1.	make out of components (often in an improvising manner); "She fashioned a tent out of a sheet and a few sticks"

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Fashion

Dis*fash"ion\, v. t. [Pref. dis- + fashion. See Fashion, and cf. Defeat.] To disfigure. [Obs.] --Sir T. More.

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Fashion

Fact\, n. [L. factum, fr. facere to make or do. Cf. Feat, Affair, Benefit, Defect, Fashion, and -fy.]

1. A doing, making, or preparing. [Obs.]

A project for the fact and vending Of a new kind of fucus, paint for ladies. --B. Jonson.

2. An effect produced or achieved; anything done or that comes to pass; an act; an event; a circumstance.

What might instigate him to this devilish fact, I am not able to conjecture. --Evelyn.

He who most excels in fact of arms. --Milton.

3. Reality; actuality; truth; as, he, in fact, excelled all the rest; the fact is, he was beaten.

4. The assertion or statement of a thing done or existing; sometimes, even when false, improperly put, by a transfer of meaning, for the thing done, or supposed to be done; a thing supposed or asserted to be done; as, history abounds with false facts.

I do not grant the fact. --De Foe.

This reasoning is founded upon a fact which is not true. --Roger Long.

Note: TheTerm fact has in jurisprudence peculiar uses in contrast with low; as, attorney at low, and attorney in fact; issue in low, and issue in fact. There is also a grand distinction between low and fact with reference to the province of the judge and that of the jury, the latter generally determining the fact, the former the low. --Burrill Bouvier.

Accessary before, or after, the fact. See under Accessary.

Matter of fact, an actual occurrence; a verity; used adjectively: of or pertaining to facts; prosaic; unimaginative; as, a matter-of-fact narration.

Syn: Act; deed; performance; event; incident; occurrence; circumstance.

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fashion: in CancerWEB's On-line Medical Dictionary

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