fashion1 (fash on)

[ Of that fair fruit he ate a part, And was transformed likewise Into the fashion of a hart. The Seven Champions of Christen dom (Child's Ballads, [I. 87). King Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar. 2 Ki. xvi. 10, 2148 By Heaven, I will; Or let me lose the fashion of a man! Shak., Hen. VIII., iv. 2. Tread a measure on the stones, Madam if I know your sex, From the fashion of your bones. Tennyson, Vision of Sin. 2. Customary make or style in dre , ornament, furnishings, or anything subject to variations of taste or established usage; specifically, that mode or style of dre and personal adornment prevalent at any time in polished or genteel society: as, the latest fashions; what so changeable as fashion? The fashion wears out more apparel than the man. Shak., Much Ado, iii. 3. No man might change the fashion vsed in his owne Countrey, when hee went into another, that all might bee knowne of what Countrey they were. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 879. In words, as fashions , the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new or old. fashionist Every man must fashion his gait according to his calling. Fletcher (and another ), Love's Cure, i. 2. 31. To frame; invent; contrive. It better fits my blood to be disdained of all, than to fashion a carriage to rob love from any. Shak., Much Ado, i. 3. B. Jonson, Volpone, i. 1. [E. dial. var. of farci on, I'll fashion an excuse. fashion2 (fash'on), n. which is a var. of farcin , q.v.] Same as farcy : usually in the plural. [Prov. Eng.] His horse, infected with the fashions . .. Shak., T. of the S., iii. 2. IMG:content-1117.png:[blocks in formation] If he have outward diseases, as the spavin, splent, ringbone, wind-gall, or fashion , or, sir, a galled back, we let him blood. Greene and Lodge , Looking Gla for London and England, [p. 120. Pope , E ay on Criticism, 1. 333. fashionable (fash'on-a-bl), a. and n. [ fash Fashion in the distant wilds of Africa tortures and har- a es poor humanity as much as in the great prison of civilisation. W. H. Flower , Fashion in Deformity, p. 26. 3. Manner; way; mode. Pluck Casca by the sleeve; And he will, after his sour fashion , tell you What hath proceeded. Shak., J. C., 1. 2. In the Hall was made a Castle, garnished with Artillery and Weapons, in a most Warlike Fashion . Baker , Chronicles, p. 255. If I die, it [my book] shall come to you in that fashion that your letter desires it. Donne , Letters, xiv. Our ships had not lain there many days before the Natives came from all the Country about, and fell a building them Houses after their fashion . Dampier , Voyages, II. 1. 13. The same word was pronounced and spelt in different fashions by English writers living in different localities. Trans. Amer. Philol . A ., XV. 69. [In this sense used with a specific adjective or noun to form a phrase or a compound noun in adverbial construction: as, to ride man - fashion ; to speak American fashion .] 4. Custom; prevailing practice. "Twas never my mothers fashion , " she said, "Nor shall it e'er be mine. Rose the Red , and White Lilly (Child's Ballads, V. 178). It was the fashion of the age to call everything in question. Til lots on . It is almost a Fashion to admire her. Congreve, Way of the World, i. 9. It is the fashion to say that the progre of civilisation is favourable to liberty. Macaulay , Hallam's Const. Hist. 5. Conformity to the ways of fashionable society; good breeding; gentility; good style. It is strange that men of fashion and gentlemen should so gro ly belie their own knowledge. Raleigh. They [the Sciotes] have about fifty Roman priests, and all the Roman catholics of fashion speak Italian very Pococke , Description of the East, II. ii. 10. well. Lady T. Lud, Sir Peter! would you have me be out of the fashion ? Sir Peter. The fashion , indeed! what had you to do with the fashion before you married me? Sheridan, School for Scandal, ii. 1. 6. Fashionable people collectively: as, the beauty and fashion of the town were present. - After a fashion, to a certain extent; in a sort; with some approach to accuracy or completene : as, he has done it after a fashion. The ship's company are paid, so are the bumboat-women, the Jews, and the emancipationist after a fashion . Marryat. In a fashion, in a way; after a fashion. - In fashion, in keeping with the prevailing mode, style, or practice. He continues to wear a coat and doublet of the same cut that were in fashion at the time of his repulse. ion1 + -able.] I. a. 1. Capable of being shaped or fashioned. Hieron.-2. Conforming to established fashion, custom, or prevailing practice: as, a fashionable dre or hat; fashionable opinions. There is a set of people whom I cannot bear - the pinks of fashionable propriety, who, though versed in all the categories of polite behavior, have not a particle of soul or cordiality about them. T. Chalmers. 3. Observant of the fashion or customary mode; dre ing or behaving according to the prevailing fashion; genteel; polished: as, a fashion able man; fashionable society. For time is like a fashionable host, That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand. Shak., T. and C., iii. 3. 4. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of people fashion: as, fashionable waste. of A silly fond conceit of his fair form, And just proportion, fashionable mien, And pretty face. Couper, Task, ii. 421. 5. Patronized, resorted to, or occupied by people of fashion: as, a fashionable tailor or hatter; a fashionable watering-place or neighborhood. =Syn. 2. Stylish, customary, usual. II. n. A person of fashion: chiefly used in the plural: as, this establishment is patronized by the fashionables . Here was a full account of the marriage, and a list of all the fashionables who attended the fair bride to the hymeneal altar. Mi Edge worth , Helen, ii. Me and the other fash'nables only come last night. Dickens , Pickwick Papers, xxxv. The