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| 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 |
| 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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