fashion plate

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noun
  1. a person who consistently wears the latest style in dress.

  2. an illustration showing the prevailing or new fashion in clothes.

Origin of fashion plate

1
First recorded in 1850–55

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How to use fashion plate in a sentence

  • She consults the fashion-plate oftener than her Bible; she visits the dry-goods shop and the milliner oftener than the church.

  • Each number will contain a double-size fashion plate, engraved on steel and handsomely colored.

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  • Dalton nodded and the fair-haired fashion plate stepped down into the path and strolled away.

British Dictionary definitions for fashion plate

fashion plate

noun
  1. an illustration of the latest fashion in dress

  2. a fashionably dressed person

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