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Fashion   /fˈæʃən/   Listen
Fashion

noun
1.
How something is done or how it happens.  Synonyms: manner, mode, style, way.  "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"
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
(past & past part. fashioned; pres. part. fashioning)
1.
Make out of components (often in an improvising manner).  Synonym: forge.



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"Fashion" Quotes from Famous Books



... on a misty morning rolled Frenchy Donahue in his most pronounced Old Salt fashion. Frenchy had acquired such a sailorish roll to his walk, that Al Torrance hinted more than once that the Irish lad could not get to sleep at night now that he was ashore until his mother went out and threw several buckets of water ...
— Navy Boys Behind the Big Guns - Sinking the German U-Boats • Halsey Davidson
... steamer that was sailing with the ship; so that he had heard of her, for she came through the canal with us. I have thought of this matter before; and the little steamer would be a great temptation to the half-civilized Arabs that inhabit these shores, and they are sailors after their own fashion. I know you are not afraid of them, Captain Scott; but it would be easy enough for these pirates to fall upon you, capture the little steamer, and make an end of all ...
— Asiatic Breezes - Students on The Wing • Oliver Optic
... that he has to do, if unhappily his parents or masters have not done it for him, is to find out what he is fit for. In which inquiry a man may be safely guided by his likings, if he be not also guided by his pride. People usually reason in some such fashion as this: "I don't seem quite fit for a head-manager in the firm of —— & Co., therefore, in all probability, I am fit to be Chancellor of the Exchequer." Whereas, they ought rather to reason thus: "I don't seem quite fit to be head-manager in the firm of —— & Co., but I dare say ...
— On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) - A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature • John Ruskin
... Tummas, you ben't no friend of mine, I guess, a'ter last night's work; you hears how I coughs?"—and he began to wheezle and crow in a most remarkable fashion. ...
— Tom Cringle's Log • Michael Scott
... grace before and after meat, nor their graces the duchesses, but the Graces which attended on Venus.] In garden-silks, brocades, and laces? Are they not such another sight, When met upon a birth-day night? The clouds delight to change their fashion: (Dear ladies be not in a passion!) Nor let this whim to you seem strange, Who every hour delight in change. In them and you alike are seen The sullen symptoms of the spleen; The moment that your vapors rise, We see them dropping from your eyes. In evening fair you may ...
— The Humourous Poetry of the English Language • James Parton


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