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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fad, strong interest |
| Synonyms: | chic, cry, enthusiasm, fashion, fever, furor, in thing, infatuation, kick*, mania, mode, monomania, newest wrinkle, novelty, passion, preoccupation, rage, the last word, the latest thing, trend, vogue, wrinkle |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fashion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | latest style, prevailing taste |
| Synonyms: | appearance, bandwagon, chic, configuration, convention, craze, cry, cultism, cultus, custom, cut, dernier cri, fad, faddism, figure, form, furor, in thing, last word, latest, latest thing, line*, look, make, mode, model, mold, newest wrinkle, pattern, rage, shape, thing*, tone, trend, usage, vogue |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | flair |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | talent, style |
| Synonyms: | ability, accomplishment, aptitude, aptness, bent, chic, dash, elegance, faculty, feel, genius, gift, glamour, head, knack, mastery, panache, pizzazz*, presence, shine*, splash*, taste, turn, zip |
| Notes: | flair is a natural talent or distinctive and stylish elegance while a flare (noun) is a burst of light used to communicate or illuminate - flare (verb) means to burn brightly or to erupt or intensify suddenly |
| Antonyms: | inability, incapacity, ineptitude, ineptness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mode |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trend, fad |
| Synonyms: | chic, convention, craze, cry, dernier cri, fashion, furor, last word, latest thing, latest wrinkle, look, mainstream, now*, rage*, style, thing*, vogue |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something in vogue; popular notion |
| Synonyms: | caprice, chic, conceit, craze, crotchet, cry, dernier cri, enthusiasm, fad, fancy, fashion, freak, furor, happening, hot spot, in, in-spot, in-thing, last word, latest, latest thing, latest wrinkle, mania, mode, newest wrinkle, now*, passion, style, thing*, up to the minute, vagary, whim |
| Notes: | ire suggests greater intensity than anger, rage suggests loss of self-control, and fury is destructive rage verging on madness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | vogue |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fashion; current practice |
| Synonyms: | chic, craze*, currency, custom, dernier cri, fad*, fashionableness, favor, in thing, last word, latest, mode, popularity, practice, prevalence, rage*, style, stylishness, thing*, trend, usage, use, way |
| Antonyms: | disuse, out |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Main Entry: | fashion |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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a la mode, acid washed, aesthetic, after one's fancy, allover, artistic, attic, banded, bardocucullated, bonded, bruffed, camisated, capistrate, castorial, chaste, clad, classical, colorfast, cultivated, custom, damasse, designer, diaphanous, dight, dighted, discinct, dizened, dressmaker, elegant, endimanché, euphemistic, figured, fin, frayed, full, habited, in court dress, in evening dress, in good taste, invested, jimpricute, long, missy, motley, nubby, ocreate, off, peekaboo, preshrunk, prewashed, pure, raveled, ready, reversible, sartorial, sericeous, shod, short, standaway, stonewashed, strapless, subvestimentary, tasteful, tasty, threadbare, to one's mind, to one's taste, tonnish, two, unisize, vestiary, water, waterproof, yclad, youthy
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| Concept: | Fashion. |
| Category: | 2. Discriminative Affections |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
fashion, style, ton, bon ton, society; good society, polite society; monde; drawing-room, civilized life, civilization, town, beau monde, high life, court; world; fashionable world, gay world; Vanity Fair; show (ostentation)., manners, breeding (politeness); air, demeanor (appearance); savoir faire; gentlemanliness, gentility, decorum, propriety, bienséance; conventions of society; Mrs. Grundy; punctilio; form, formality; etiquette, point of etiquette; dress., custom; mode, vogue, go; rage (desire); prevailing taste., man of fashion, woman of fashion, man of the world, woman of the world; height of fashion, pink of fashion, star of fashion, glass of fashion, leader of fashion; arbiter elegantiarum (taste); upper ten thousand (nobility); elite (distinction); smart set; the four hundred [U.S.].
-verbs
be fashionable, be the rage; have a run, pass current., follow the fashion, conform to the fashion, fall in with the fashion n.; go with the stream (conform); savoir vivre, savoir faire; keep up appearances, behave oneself., set the fashion, bring in the fashion; give a tone to society, cut a figure in society; keep one's carriage.
-adjectives
fashionable; in fashion; a la mode, comme il faut; admitted in society, admissible in society; presentable; conventional (customary); genteel; well-gred, well mannered, well behaved, well spoken; gentlemanlike, gentlemanly; ladylike; civil, polite (courteous)., polished, refined, thoroughbred, courtly; distingue; unembarrassed, degage; janty, jaunty; dashing,f ast., modish, stylish, chic, trendy, recherche; newfangled (unfamiliar); all the rage, all the go., in court, in full dress, in evening dress; en grande tenue (ornament).
-adverbs
fashionably; for fashion's sake.
-phrases
a la francaise, a la parisienne; a l'anglaise, a l'americaine; autre temps autre mauers; chaque pays a sa guise.
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