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fash⋅ion

  [fash-uhn]
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–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)   
n.  

  1. The prevailing style or custom, as in dress or behavior: out of fashion.

  2. Something, such as a garment, that is in the current mode: a swimsuit that is the latest fashion.

  3. 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.

  5. Kind or variety; sort: people of all fashions.

  6. Shape or form; configuration.

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

  1. To give shape or form to; make: fashioned a table from a redwood burl.

  2. To train or influence into a particular state or character.

  3. To adapt, as to a purpose or an occasion; accommodate.

  4. 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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Word Origin & History

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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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