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

Professor Green was something of a fashion plate herself, often exuberantly dressed in vintage or handmade treasures, and often sporting a hat.

From New York Times • Nov. 5, 2021

Barbie Gilbert is no Pamela Anderson look-alike or a celebrity fashion plate, as earlier Barbie iterations usually were.

From Washington Post • Aug. 13, 2021

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

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 1, 2021

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