Antonyms for fashion
| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : fash-uhn |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈfæʃ ən |
Definition of fashion
Origin :- c.1300, "shape, manner, mode," from Old French façon (12c.) "face, appearance; construction, pattern, design; thing done; beauty; manner, characteristic feature," from Latin factionem (nominative factio) "group of people acting together," literally "a making or doing," from facere "to make" (see factitious).
- Sense of "prevailing custom" is from late 15c.; that of "style of attire" is from 1520s.
- 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 reference to the typographic "plate" from which it was printed. Transfered sense of "well-dressed person" had emerged by 1920s.
- noun latest style, prevailing taste
- noun attitude, manner
- verb adjust, design, create
- No shaft that Percival was able to fashion had point enough to pierce it.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- He has an air, it is true, but his air is not a breeze, like the air of a pretender to fashion.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
- For half an hour he rode in this fashion with his heart beating at his teeth.
- Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
- Be a brother after thy own fashion, only see it be a brother thou art.
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
- "But they must be sorry folk to bow down to the rich in such a fashion," said big John.
- Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
- It was Burke who offered a diversion, a crude interruption after his own fashion.
- Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
- At last we said, 'Evidently it is the fashion of this country to fight.
- Extract from : « The Trail Book » by Mary Austin
- There is a fashion just now to call it dangerous and the tricycle safe.
- Extract from : « Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884 » by Various
- Our meal was a perfectly English dinner, served and eaten in the English fashion.
- Extract from : « Camps, Quarters and Casual Places » by Archibald Forbes
- In her own fashion she was a good sort, and better looking than most women past forty.
- Extract from : « Dust » by Mr. and Mrs. Haldeman-Julius
Synonyms for fashion
- accommodate
- adapt
- appearance
- bandwagon
- build
- carve
- chic
- configuration
- construct
- contrive
- convention
- cook up
- craze
- cry
- cultism
- cultus
- custom
- cut
- demeanor
- dernier cri
- device
- devise
- dream up
- erect
- etiquette
- fabricate
- fad
- faddism
- figure
- fit
- forge
- form
- formality
- formula
- frame
- furor
- guise
- in thing
- knock together
- last word
- latest
- latest thing
- line
- look
- make
- manufacture
- method
- mode
- model
- modus operandi
- mold
- mores
- newest wrinkle
- observance
- order
- pattern
- plan
- plot
- practice
- precedent
- prescription
- prevalence
- procedure
- produce
- rage
- sculpture
- shape
- sort
- style
- suit
- system
- tailor
- technique
- tendency
- thing
- throw together
- tone
- trend
- turn out
- usage
- vein
- vogue
- way
- work
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