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

Nan Kempner sat nearby and so, too, did the fashion plate and philanthropist Judith Peabody, crowned with her signature bouffant nimbus.

From New York Times • Mar. 3, 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