fashion plate

Example Sentences

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Stella, it can safely be said, was not a fashion plate.

From New York Times • May 5, 2024

It was Margaret, the rebel, who was renowned as a fashion plate in Dior and other designers, and her influence on Elizabeth was tangible.

From Seattle Times • May 26, 2022

A drab housewife becomes a Paris fashion plate, then meets her ex-husband.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 1, 2021

She’s a fashion plate who loves the finer things in life; he’s a nudist.

From Slate • Aug. 3, 2020

He was something of a fashion plate, always well dressed and forever drawing the eyes of the young women around him, though he did not seem to have a steady girl.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown