Fashion Definition–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. | | 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. | |
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