fashion

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Middle English facioun, from Anglo-Norman fechoun (compare Jersey Norman faichon), variant of Old French faceon, fazon, façon (“fashion, form, make, outward appearance”), from Latin factiō (“a making”), from faciō (“do, make”); see fact. Doublet of faction.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈfæʃən/
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  • Rhymes: -æʃən

Noun[edit]

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fashion (countable and uncountable, plural fashions)

  1. (countable) A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons.
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess‎[1]:
      The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years.
  2. (uncountable) Popular trends.
    Check out the latest in fashion.
  3. (countable) A style or manner in which something is done.
    • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter V
      When it had advanced from the wood, it hopped much after the fashion of a kangaroo, using its hind feet and tail to propel it, and when it stood erect, it sat upon its tail.
    • 2011 October 1, Phil Dawkes, “Sunderland 2 - 2 West Brom”, in BBC Sport‎[2]:
      It shell-shocked the home crowd, who quickly demanded a response, which came midway through the half and in emphatic fashion.
    • c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene ii]:
      Ophelia: My lord, he hath importuned me with love in honourable fashion.
      Lord Polonius: Ay, fashion you may call it; go to, go to.
  4. The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; workmanship; execution.
    the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.
  5. (dated) Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding.
    men of fashion

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Verb[edit]

fashion (third-person singular simple present fashions, present participle fashioning, simple past and past participle fashioned)

  1. To make, build or construct, especially in a crude or improvised way.
    • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IX
      I have three gourds which I fill with water and take back to my cave against the long nights. I have fashioned a spear and a bow and arrow, that I may conserve my ammunition, which is running low.
    • 2005, Plato, Sophist, translation by Lesley Brown, 235b:
      […] a device fashioned by arguments against that kind of prey.
  2. (dated) To make in a standard manner; to work.
    • 1691, [John Locke], Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering of Interest, and Raising the Value of Money. […], London: […] Awnsham and John Churchill, […], published 1692, OCLC 933799310:
      Fashioned plate sells for more than its weight.
  3. (dated) To fit, adapt, or accommodate to.
    • 1633, Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande  […], Dublin: […] Sir James Ware; reprinted as A View of the State of Ireland […], Dublin: […] the Society of Stationers, […] Hibernian Press,  […] By John Morrison, 1809:
      Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people.
  4. (obsolete) To forge or counterfeit.

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Portuguese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Unadapted borrowing from English fashion. Doublet of facção and feição.

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

fashion (invariable, comparable)

  1. (slang) fashionable, trendy

Spanish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Unadapted borrowing from English fashion. Doublet of facción.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈfaʃjon/, [ˈfa.ʃjõn]

Adjective[edit]

fashion (invariable)

  1. fashionable, trendy

Derived terms[edit]

Noun[edit]

fashion m (plural fashions or fashion)

  1. fashion

Usage notes[edit]

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

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