fashion plate
Example Sentences
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Trinitie is no less of a fashion plate than her husband, favoring elaborate hats and designer dresses.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 30, 2022
The man at the counter, a slim Cape Cod fashion plate with tanned arms popping out of his tank top, looked me over gravely, lowered his voice and confided something amazing.
From New York Times • May 11, 2022
A drab housewife becomes a Paris fashion plate, then meets her ex-husband.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 1, 2021
Mike was anything but a fashion plate back then.
From Washington Post • Feb. 12, 2020
I fiddle with the curly mass of my bangs and slouch down, feeling like the plainest girl ever next to the fashion plate that is Katherine Deveraux.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
