fashionable
Etymology
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Etymology
From
- IPA: /ˈfæʃənəbl̩/
fashionable
- Characteristic of or influenced by a current popular trend or style.
- Synonyms: styleworthy, Thesaurus:fashionable
- Antonyms: Thesaurus:unfashionable
- a fashionable dress
- a fashionable man
- Established or favoured by custom or use; current; prevailing at a particular time.
- the fashionable philosophy
- fashionable opinions
- (archaic) genteel; well-bred
- fashionable society
- c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act III, scene iii] ↗, column 1:
- For time is like a faſhionable Hoſte / That ſlightly ſhakes his parting Gueſt by th'hand;
- French: à la mode, en vogue, fashionable (dated)
- German: modisch, fashionable
- Portuguese: moderno, na moda
- Russian: мо́дный
- Spanish: a la moda, de moda
fashionable (plural fashionables)
- A fashionable person; a fop.
- Synonyms: Thesaurus:dandy
- 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC ↗:
- Just as I was stepping up to offer my hand to a very pleasing and witty fashionable, the brilliant and exclusive Mrs. Rawdon Crawley,"—he wrote […]
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