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▪ I. fashion, n.
    (ˈfæʃən)
    Forms: 4 facioun, -un(e, 4–5 fasoun (4 -zoun), 4–6 Sc. fassoun, (-s)sowne), 5–6 facion(e, -cyon, -oun, (-ssion, -oun, -s)syon(e, 5 fasceon, -schyoun, 6 facon, -son, -sson(e, fastyon, fachion, -scyon, -shin, -sshon, -s)shyon, -szshion, fayssyon), 6– fashion.
    [a. OF. fa{cced}on, fazon, ONF. fachon (mod. Fr. fa{cced}on) = Pr. faisso, It. fazione (the Sp. faccion is of learned origin):—L. factiōn-em, n. of action f. facĕre to make: see faction n.]
    † 1. The action or process of making. Hence, the ‘making’ or workmanship as an element in the value of plate or jewellery. Obs.

1463 Mann. & Househ. Exp. 154 Ffor the fasyon of the same schene, v. marc. 1575–6 Act 18 Eliz. c. 15 This they [Goldsmythes] take not above the rate of xij d. for the ounce of Golde (besides the fashion). 1590 Shakes. Com. Err. iv. i. 29 The..chargefull fashion..doth amount to three odde Duckets more. 1594 T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. ii. 393 Of the fashion of a childe in the wombe, and how the members are framed. 1664 Pepys Diary (1879) III. 62 They judge the fashion to be worth above 5s. per oz. more. 1761–2 Hume Hist. Eng. (1806) III. App. iii. 630, 14 or 15 thousand pounds weight [of silver plate], which, besides the fashion, would be [etc.].

2. a. Make, build, shape. Hence, in wider sense, visible characteristics, appearance. Said both of material and of immaterial things. arch. † out of fashion: out of shape.
Some of the earlier instances may belong to 2 c.

a 1300 Cursor M. 22322 (Cott.) Fair in faciun for to sei. c 1320 Sir Beues 2155 Me wolde þenke be his fasoun, Þat hit were Beues of Hamtoun. c 1350 Will. Palerne 402 A dere damisele..of all fasoun þe fairest. 14.. Tundale's Vis. 2062 A crowne Off gold that was of semyly faschyown. 1440 Promp. Parv. 150/2 Fassyone, or factyone, forme of makynge, forma, formefactura, formefactio. c 1511 1st Eng. Bk. Amer. (Arb.) Introd. 35/1 There be dyuers people of fason in our lande..there be people that haue the body of a man and the hede lyke a dogge. 1526 Tindale Luke xii. 56 Ye can skyll of the fassion of the erth, and of the skye. 1551 Robinson tr. More's Utop. i. (Arb.) 31 Vnder the line equinoctiall..all thynges bee..out of fassyon, and comelinesse. 1562 Turner Herbal ii. 85 a, Phalaris..hath a sede..whyte in fasshon. 1581 Mulcaster Positions xxx. (1887) 111 If the infirmitie in fashion be casuall..exercise..will make that streight, which was croked. 1611 Bible Luke ix. 29 The fashion of his countenance was altered. 1615 Crooke Body of Man 20 He inquireth into the nature and fashion of euery Bone. a 1661 Fuller Worthies (1840) II. 261 This county, in fashion, is like a bended bow. 1784 Cowper Task i. 21 A massy slab, in fashion square or round. 1793 Burke Rem. Policy Allies Wks. 1842 I. 591 The fashion of some constitution which suited with their fancies. 1865 Swinburne Poems & Ball., Before Parting 21, I know..The fashion of fair temples tremulous With tender blood. 1877 L. Morris Epic Hades ii. 221, I knew not The fashion of his nature.

† b. Spoken of as an attribute, that may be imparted and possessed; form as opposed to matter.

1576 Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) p. v, The craftesman that bringeth it to fashion. 1577 B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iv. (1586) 185 b, The..common sort [of bees] when they begin to have fashion, are called Nimphes. 1594 T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. ii. 394 The seede..receiueth not fashion presently vpon the conception, but remaineth for a time without any figure. 1614 Bp. Hall Recoll. Treat. 897 When wee have matter, wee can give fashion: thou gavest a being to the matter, without forme.

† c. Face, features. Obs.
[A very common use in OF.; perh. associated with face.]

c 1300 Cursor M. 21319 (Cott.) Matheu o man he has facium, Luce has of ox. c 1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode iii. xxxviii. (1869) 155 She shadwde hire visage and hire facioun vnder hire hood.

3. a. A particular make, shape, style, or pattern. Somewhat arch.

c 1325 Song Merci 41 in E.E.P. (1862) 119, I made þe Mon..Of feture liche myn owne fasoun. a 1450 Le Morte Arth. 2531 Galeis grete of fele fasowne. 1522 Bury Wills (Camden) 116 A quarte wyne pott of the olde fasshon. 1576 Fleming Panopl. Epist. 299 Two standing cuppes of silver, differing from the fashion of this time. 1611 Bible Transl. Pref. 9 The very Romane Seruice was of two fashions, the New fashion, and the Old. 1699 W. Dampier Voy. II. i. 62 Besides, our fashions of Utensils differ mightily from theirs. 1714 J. Fortescue-Aland Pref. Fortescue's Abs. & Lim. Mon. 32 The Author..puts in his Franco-Germanick, of the Latin fashion. 1848 Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 464 A limited monarchy after the modern fashion. 1849 James Woodman iv, Spreading out at the edges in the fashion of a basin.

b. esp. with reference to attire: a particular ‘cut’ or style. Cf. 8 c, 9.

1529 Supplic. to King (E.E.T.S.) 52 Somtyme cappe, somtyme hoode; nowe the Frenshe fasshyon, nowe the Spanyshe fasshyon. 1605 Shakes. Lear iii. vi. 84, I do not like the fashion of your garments. a 1674 Clarendon Surv. Leviath. (1676) 81 To wear his Clothes of that fashion which he likes best. 1838 Lytton Alice 6 Her dress..of no very modern fashion.

† c. A device, material or immaterial. Obs.

1560 Whitehorne Arte Warre (1573) b ij a, Against this fashion they haue used to make a fashion like unto a paire of sheres. 1597 Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae 1363 Se first quhat fashion may be fund To pacifie his pains.

4. Kind, sort. Now rare. Also † in fashion to: of a kind to.

1562 Turner Herbal ii. 73 b, Suche fasshon of figure is not in a Mirt-berry. 1591 Shakes. Two Gent. v. iv. 61 Thou friend of an ill fashion. 1596 ― Merch. V. i. ii. 23 This reason is not in fashion to choose me a husband. 1608 ― Per. iv. ii. 84 Gentlemen of all fashions. 1611 Cotgr., Panier..a fashion of Trunke made of Wicker. 1874 Morley Compromise (1886) 87 Consider the difference between these two fashions of compromise.

5. a. Manner, mode, way, esp. in after, † of, in, † on, this, such a, my, his, etc. fashion. rare in pl.

13.. E.E. Allit. P. A. 1100, & coronde wern alle of þe same fasoun. 1375 Barbour Bruce xvii. 300 Palȝeonis Be stentit on syndry fassownys. c 1489 Caxton Sonnes of Aymon xiv. 351 To hevy a bourdon for to lede of this facyon. 1539 in Vicary's Anat. (1888) App. iii. 173 [They] passed through the Cytie in good ordre after A warlike facion. 1567–83 Sempill Ball. 98 Ay selling caill, The best fassoun I may. 1602 Shakes. Ham. i. iii. 111 He hath importun'd me with loue, In honourable fashion. 1633 Bp. Hall Hard Texts 358 We doe, in all fashions of sorrow bemoane ourselves. 1654 tr. Scudery's Curia Pol. 7, I have governed my Subjects in such a fashion that [etc.]. 1715 De Foe Fam. Instruct. i. v. (1841) I. 109 After quite another fashion. 1822 Lamb Elia Ser. i. Distant Corr., Subjects serious in themselves, but treated after my fashion, non-seriously. 1860 Tyndall Glac. i. viii. 58 In zigzag fashion..I continued to ascend.

b. In depreciatory sense, after, in, a or some fashion: somehow or another, in a sort, tolerably, not too well.

1614 Bp. Hall Recoll. Treat. 459 Whom yet Rome harbors, and, in a fashion, graces. 1860 G. Macdonald Ann. Q. Neighb. i. (1878) 5 Work..which I can do after some fashion. 1869 Trollope He Knew xvi. (1878) 89 Providence..has made me a lady after a fashion.

† c. A method of doing anything. Obs.

1556 Aurelio & Isab. (1608) K viij, And this is the fachone be the whiche al the reames and dominions..I presently do posseade, have beane gotten. 1577 B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. i. (1586) 42 b, To wynnowe it after the olde fashion with the winde. 1614 Bp. Hall Recoll. Treat. 404 To say nothing of the fashion of their Cures. 1674 Playford Skill Mus. i. xi. 39 A good fashion of singing. 1743 Lond. & Country Brew. ii. (ed. 2) 134 He would I believe alter his Mind and Fashion.

6. a. Mode of action, bearing, behaviour, demeanour, ‘air’. Now rare.

1447 O. Bokenham Seyntys (Roxb.) 29 Be what similat facyoun Meche peple to his favour he drew. a 1535 More De Quat. Noviss. Wks. 76/1 With som good grace and pleasant fashion. 1601 ? Marston Pasquil & Kath. i. 237 He..takes a whiffe with gracefull fashion. 1719 D'Urfey Pills (1872) IV. 304 She keeps her cruel Fashion. 1851 Thackeray Eng. Hum. ii. (1858) 81 With such a grace, with such a fashion.

b. pl. Actions, gestures, ‘ways’. Now rare.

1569 J. Rogers Gl. Godly Loue 182 With spiteful wordes and wanton fashions. 1580 North Plutarch (1676) 28 He..gave himself in fashions to be somewhat like a Tyrant. 1605 Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. ix. 37 Whose eyes do dwell on the faces and fashions. 1852 Mrs. Stowe Uncle Tom's C. xxxvi, He shall beg my pardon, and promise better fashions.

† 7. Outward action or ceremony; a mere form, pretence. Obs. exc. in Sc. phrase, to make fashion: to make a show, pretend.

1571 Golding Calvin on Ps. xl. 7 Worshipping God slyghtly for fashyon sake. 1596 Shakes. Merch. V. iv. i. 18 Thou but leadest this fashion of thy mallice To the last houre of act. 1637 Rutherford Lett. No. 119 (1862) I. 296 The memory of his love maketh me think Christ's glooms are but for the fashion. 1653 Urquhart Rabelais ii. xxii, Panurge made the fashion of driving them [i.e. dogs] away. 1816 Scott Antiq. xvi, He..only just pits a bit on the plate to make fashion.

8. a. A prevailing custom, a current usage; esp. one characteristic of a particular place or period of time.

c 1489 Caxton Sonnes of Aymon xxvi. 544 A knighte..presented..a fayr knyff, after the facyon of the londe. 1583 Stubbes Anat. Abus. D vij, How unseemelie..a fashion that is, let the wise judge. 1599 Shakes. Much Ado i. i. 98 The fashion of the world is to auoid cost. 1614 Bp. Hall Recoll. Treat. 870 Ingenuously, as his fashion is. 1764 Goldsm. Trav. 279 The mind still turns where shifting fashion draws. 1814 Scott Ld. of Isles iii. xxiv, Let every man Follow the fashion of his clan! 1821 J. Q. Adams in C. Davies Metr. Syst. iii. (1871) 125 The old fashion of 140 gallons..to the butt..was then restored. a 1839 Praed Poems (1864) I. 366 New follies come, new faults, new fashions. 1876 Mozley Univ. Serm. i. 7 As a fashion of thought the idea..has..passed away.

† b. In pl. often = ‘Manners and customs’ (of nations), ‘ways’ (of men); chiefly in phrases, to know fashions, learn fashions, see (the) fashions. Obs.

1555 Waterman (title) The fardle of facions. 1599 Minsheu Dial. Sp. & Eng. (1623) 36, I will dye and live with thee Peter, for thou knowest fashions. 1658–9 Burton's Diary (1828) IV. 164 Any that come among you to see fashions. a 1716 South Serm. (1737) VI. v. 196 To see the country, and to learn fashions (as the word goes). 1721 Strype Eccl. Mem. II. ii. v. 287 The king had sent him [Barnaby Fitz-Patric] thither to remain in his [the French king's] court to learn fashions.

c. spec. with regard to apparel or personal adornment.

1547 Boorde Introd. Knowl. xiv. (1870) 159, I wyll not chaunge my olde fathers fashyon. 1576 G. Pettie Pal. Pleas., New fashions in cutting of beardes. 1596 Shakes. Tam. Shr. iii. ii. 72 'Tis some od humor pricks him to this fashion, Yet oftentimes he goes but meane apparel'd. 1654 Whitlock Zootomia 225 Fashions crosse the Seas as oft as the Packet Boat. 1713 Steele Guardian No. 10 ¶4 An opportunity to introduce fashions amongst our young gentlemen. 1833 H. Martineau Brooke Farm viii. 105 To dress themelves in Miss Black's fashions. 1859 Jephson Brittany xv. 241 A tall stout man, dressed in country fashion. 1865 Wright Hist. Caricature vi. (1875) 103 During the feudal ages, the fashions in France and England were always identical.

9. a. Conventional usage in dress, mode of life, etc., esp. as observed in the upper circles of society; conformity to this usage. Often personified, or quasi-personified.
(The first quot. may belong to 2 or 6.)

1602 Shakes. Ham. iii. i. 161 The glasse of Fashion, and the mould of Forme. 1632 Lithgow Trav. v. 205, I am..become a courtly Tobacconist; more for fashion then for liking. 1711 Shaftesbury Charac. (1737) III. 288 The man of quality..must, for fashion-sake, appear in love. 1739 Cibber Apol. (1756) I. 71 Taste and fashion with us have always had wings. 1781 Cowper Expostulation 38 As Int'rest biass'd knaves, or fashion fools. 1793 Beddoes Catarrh 169 To break the spell of Fashion would be an atchievement. 1806 Med. Jrnl. XV. 91 Fashion, that destroying angel. 1829 Lytton Devereux ii. vii, Some better object to worship than the capricieuse of fashion. 1865 Pall Mall G. 1 Aug. 10/2 Fashion and bon ton are by no means the same thing. 1892 Daily News 23 Apr. 3/5 Fashion is the all-absorbing subject.

b. Fashionable people; the fashionable world.

1807–8 W. Irving Salmag. (1824) 161 Days..When heart met heart in fashion's hall. 1873 Browning Red Cott. Nt.-cap 125 Paris fashion's blame.

c. high fashion (chiefly attrib.), haute couture; also transf.

1958 Sunday Times 19 Oct. 25/1 ‘Line for line’ copies of French models are the current high fashion rage in New York. 1959 Observer 22 Mar. 3/8 Now that high fashion has overtaken the circular, manufacturers have two kinds of worry. 1959 News Chron. 10 Aug. 6/5 The high-fashion hats seen in Paris. 1963 Listener 28 Feb. 370/1 The Education Board of the R.I.B.A. now finds its stodgy, nineteenth-century type syllabus at least partly in tune with the high fashion of the day.

10. the fashion: a. The mode of dress, etiquette, furniture, style of speech, etc., adopted in society for the time being. to lead, set the fashion: to be an example in dress, etc., for others to follow. to be in the fashion: to adopt the accepted style.

1568 Grafton Chron. II. 34 A scarlet Robe with a hoode (as the fashion then was). 1601 ? Marston Pasquil & Kath. i. 276 Her loue is..as vnconstant as the fashion. 1604 Jas. I Counterbl. (Arb.) 105 It is come to be the fashion. 1612 Rowlands Knaue of Harts 13 Let vs haue standing Collers, in the fashion. 1710 Steele Tatler No. 77 ¶1 Alexander the Great had a wry Neck, which made it the Fashion in his Court, to carry their Heads on one Side. 1762 Goldsm. Nash 10 Several persons qualified to lead the fashion both by birth and fortune. 1794 Nelson in Nicolas Disp. (ed. 2) I. 474 It is the fashion to say it would have been difficult to make a breach. 1838 De Morgan Ess. Probab. Pref. 7 It was then very much the fashion..to publish results and conceal methods. 1840 Dickens Barn. Rudge xvi, The fashion being of course set by the upper class.

b. The person or thing that it is fashionable to admire or discuss.

1790–1811 Combe Devil upon Two Sticks (1817) II. 217, I should not be tempted to marry him, if he were not the fashion. 1824 Medwin Convers. Byron (1832) I. 55, I was the fashion when she first came out. 1837 Miss Mitford in L'Estrange Life III. v. 78 Another book..is much the fashion.

11. in, out of (the) fashion: in, out of, vogue or customary use, esp. in polite society; according or contrary to the customary rule or standard. Also to bring, come, grow into, go out of fashion.

1601 Shakes. Jul. C. v. v. 5 Slaying is the word, It is a deed in fashion. 1601 ― All's Well i. i. 170 Virginitie like an olde Courtier, weares her cap out of fashion. 1603 Florio Montaigne (1632) 505 The Hungarians did very availefully bring them [war-coaches] into fashion. 1608 W. Sclater Malachy (1650) 103 Sins, when they are grown into fashion, are swallowed up as no sins. 1614 Bp. Hall Recoll. Treat. 684 Shall nothing but our soules be out of the fashion? 1630 R. Johnson's Kingd. & Commw. 55 Let him..take heed, that the apparell he weares, be in fashion in the place where he resideth. 1719 D'Urfey Pills (1872) V. 154 Would you be a man in Fashion? 1728 W. Cleland Let. Publisher Pope's Dunciad 19 Out of power, or out of fashion. 1782 Priestley Corrupt. Chr. II. ix. 157 Solitary pilgrimages were..much in fashion. 1848 Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 179 The decorous gravity which had been thirty years before in fashion at Whitehall. 1850 Tait's Mag. XVII. 532 1 Little dogs that had come into fashion. 1880 M. E. Braddon Just as I am vii, Aunt Dora's gowns..were always in the fashion.

12. (man, woman) of fashion: † a. (In early use often more fully of high fashion, great fashion, good fashion.) Of high quality or breeding, of eminent social standing or repute. [Cf. sense 4 and OF. gens de (bonne) fa{cced}on.] This gradually merges into the current sense b. That moves in upper-class society, and conforms to its rules with regard to dress, expenditure, and habits.

c 1489 Caxton Blanchardyn xlviii. 187 They..defended theym vygoryously, as men of highe facion. 1597 Sir R. Cecil in Ellis Orig. Lett. i. 234 III. 43 A Gentleman of excellent fashion. a 1618 Raleigh Apol. 7 It is strange that men of fashion and Gentlemen should so grosly bely their owne knowledge. c 1675 Househ. Ord. 354 Persons of good fashion..that have a desire to see us at dinner. 1702 W. J. Bruyn's Voy. Levant x. 37 Greeks of Fashion, who are not for herding with the Populace. 1752 Hume Ess. & Treat. (1777) I. 204 Augustus was obliged..to force men of fashion into the married state. 1755 E. Moore in World No. 151 (1772) III. 278 A woman cannot be a woman of fashion till she has lost her reputation. 1766 Goldsm. Vic. W. xxi, Intimacy with people of the best fashion. 1800 E. Hervey Mourtray Fam. II. 76 A person of her fashion and figure. 1824 Medwin Convers. Byron (1832) II. 50, I..was in favour with Brummell (and that was alone enough to make a man of fashion).

13. attrib. and Comb. a. Simple attrib. fashion-artist, fashion-designer, fashion-journal, fashion-letter, fashion magazine, fashion mania, fashion-model (so fashion-modelling vbl. n.), fashion show; fashion-conscious adj.

1903 A. Bennett Truth about Author x. 120, I could instruct a *fashion-artist.

1951 M. McLuhan Mech. Bride 75/2 Mallarmé and Joyce refused to be distracted by the *fashion-conscious sirens of contents and subject matter. 1960 Guardian 15 July 8/2 The fashion-conscious visitor to Paris.

1909 Westm. Gaz. 15 Mar. 5/1 The very red about which *fashion-designers are decided.

1905 E. Wharton House of Mirth ii. ix. 432 The newspapers, the *fashion-journals.

1894 E. L. Shuman Steps into Journalism 154 Jennie June..who is known all over the country for her syndicate *fashion letters. 1903 A. Bennett Truth about Author x. 120 A Paris fashion-letter.

1879 M. E. Braddon Vixen II. xiv. 256 Your trousseau should be..described in the *fashion magazines. 1966 H. Yoxall Fashion of Life viii. 75 The majority of middle-aged women still have distressingly little sense of style... For them the fashion magazines might just as well not exist.

1829 Westm. Rev. XI. 399 This practice of blushing for unmodish friends..belongs to the *fashion-mania.

1962 John o' London's 22 Mar. 291/1 An ageing *fashion-model. 1970 P. Moyes Who saw her Die? i. 12 She was thirty-three years old, with the figure of a fashion model.

1964 C. Barber Present-Day Eng. v. 118 *Fashion-modelling has been built up..as the ideal career.

1938 Collier's 8 Jan. 13 This is, believe it or not, a *fashion show.

† b. Forming with preceding adj. a quasi-adj. or adjectival phrase. Obs.

1677 Hale Prim. Orig. Man. i. i. 4 What fashion Cloaths the Roman officers..used. 1712 E. Cooke Voy. S. Sea 85 The great Square..has old Fashion Houses on the East and South Sides.

c. Forming with a preceding n. or adj. an adverbial phrase. Cf. -wise.

[1494 Fabyan Chron. vii. 313 He had deuysed newe engynes after towerre facion.] 1633 P. Fletcher Purple Isl. iv. xxxii, Made like an Ivie leaf, broad-angle-fashion. 1670 Narborough Jrnl. in Acc. Sev. Late Voy. i. (1711) 66 Flint stones, neatly made broad Arrow-fashion. 1710 Lond. Gaz. No. 4748/4 A Silver Hungary Water Bottle Flask fashion gilt. 1721 Bailey, Capon Fashion [in Archery], the same as Bob-tail. 1796 H. Glasse Cookery xviii. 295 Take the leg of a..small beef..and cut it ham-fashion. 1809–12 M. Edgeworth Absentee ix, Laying the outer⁓most part of your feather this fashion next to your hook. 1867 Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) I. App. 624 The tardy bridal was done Christian fashion. 1886 R. C. Leslie Sea-painter's Log 216 Picked up the puppy, holding it baby fashion in his arms.

d. objective, as fashion-following n., fashion-fancying adj.; instrumental, as fashion-bound, fashion-driven, fashion-favoured, fashion-fettered, fashion-led, fashion-minded, fashion-ridden adjs.

1949 Koestler Insight & Outlook xxi. 297 Implicit, sophisticated, or *fashion-bound forms of artistic expression.

1891 Kipling Light that Failed iv. 69 The easy applause of a *fashion-driven public.

1896 Westm. Gaz. 2 July 4/3 *Fashion-favoured stuffs.

1647 Ward Simp. Cobler 25 These *fashion-fansying wits Are empty thinbrain'd shells.

1887 Pall Mall G. 26 Sept. 11/2 *Fashion-fettered fops.

1621 S. Ward Happiness of Practice (1627) 43 Sabbath-breaking, and *fashion-following.

1784 Cowper Tiroc. 779 Whom do I advise? the *fashion-led.

1938 Chatelaine Oct. 2/1 The upward sweep has become of intense importance to the *fashion-minded. 1940 Manch. Guardian Weekly 30 Aug. 142 British manufacturers are continually producing new samples to meet the requirements of the most fashion-minded overseas wearers.

1897 G. B. Shaw Let. 28 May (1965) 770 The silly visionary *fashion-ridden theatres.

14. Special comb.: fashion-book, a book describing and illustrating new fashions in dress; fashion-fly, fig. one who sports in the beams of fashion; fashion house, a business establishment for the display and sale of high-quality clothes; fashion-paper, a journal of fashionable life; esp. a journal specializing in current fashions in dress; fashion-picture, a representation of fashionable costumes; fashion piece, Naut. (see quots.); fashion plate, ‘a pictorial design showing the prevailing style or new style of dress’ (W.); also applied to other kinds of fashionable display; fashion-timber, = fashion-piece. Also fashion-monger.

1840 Fiddle Faddle Fashion Book 8/1 To depart from Fashion in a *Fashion-Book is so shocking a thing that we tremble at the very idea of it. 1853 Mrs. Gaskell Cranford vii. 134 Three or four handsomely bound fashion-books ten or twelve years old. 1907 B. M. Croker Company's Servant viii. 74, I have brought back..a fashion-book, ribbons, gloves, and lots of sweets.

1868 Ld. Houghton Select. fr. Wks. 63 Many a careless *fashion-fly.

1958 London Mag. Dec. 33 A woman of character and elegance who ran a *fashion house on one of the streets near Central Park. 1970 D. Wheatley Gateway to Hell iv. 44 She..became the top model in a leading fashion house.

1885 E. D. Gerard Waters Hercules xxx, She snatched up the *fashion-paper. 1901 F. H. Burnett Making of Marchioness i. i. 4 You might get on to one of the second-class fashion-papers to answer ridiculous questions about house⁓keeping or wall-papers or freckles. 1913 Kipling Lett. of Travel (1920) 246 She showed me what looked like a fashion-paper print of a dress-stuff. 1925 L. P. Smith Words & Idioms iii. 127 Even in fashion-papers we read of ‘creations’ in millinery.

1884 Sat. Rev. 14 June 780/1 The subject..is a mere *fashion-picture.

1627 Capt. Smith Seaman's Gram. ii. 2. From it [the Stern-post] doth rise the two *fashion peeces, like a paire of great hornes. 1704 J. Harris Lex. Techn., Fashion-pieces are those two Timbers which describe the breadth of the Ship at the Stern. 1830 Marryat King's Own xlix, My..fashion pieces were framed out. c 1850 Rudim. Navig. (Weale) 117 Fashion-pieces, the timbers..fashioning the after-part of the ship in the plane of projection, by terminating the breadth and forming the shape of the stern.

1851 A. O. Hall Manhattaner 21 She unrolls the *fashion plate. 1859 L. Wilmer Press Gang 332 Fashion-plate magazines. 1864 Webster, Fashion plate. 1891 Stamp Collector Dec. 48 The latest philatelic ‘fashion plates’ tell us that the new idea of collecting postal cards is to collect them direct from the countries issuing them. 1908 Westm. Gaz. 26 May 4/2 Altering the outline of each new season's model, with the result that the preceding ones are..rendered old-fashioned... We do not want the fashion-plate methods to become general amongst motor-constructors. 1967 D. Yarwood Eng. Costume (ed. 3) viii. 211 We now have innumerable fashion plates and magazines.

▸ fashion-forward adj. designating clothing, a person, etc., at the cutting edge of fashion.

1948 Los Angeles Times 26 July i. 16 (advt.) Our own nylons in our own Bel-Air package..aristocratic, a product of nylon dreams..exclusive and *fashion forward. 2003 Independent 9 Oct. 7/5 It is a formula that had led to Balenciaga being the most desired label by those who like to consider themselves ‘fashion forward’.

▸ fashion police n. colloq. a group of people enforcing a particular dress code; esp. (humorous) a notional group of self-appointed experts who habitually comment on the fashion sense of others, usually to condemn them for a perceived lack of style.

1986 Chron.-Telegram (Elyria, Ohio) 29 Aug. b7/1 He wanted them to get ready for next week, when they become *fashion police, enforcers of a new dress code that bans the ‘three Ds’—clothing that is dangerous, distracting and disruptive. 1988 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 16 Mar. 20 In Washington you get the feeling that if people fall out of line and, say, wear yellow shirts, or skirts above the knee, the fashion police will rush right over to cover them with a Burberry. 2001 Cosmopolitan Dec. 208 It used to be that the fashion police would flag you down if you wore creamy colors after labor day.

▸ fashion victim n. usually depreciative a person who slavishly follows trends, esp. in clothing fashion.

1984 Adweek 7 May 39/1 Slick, monied punks show you can wear diamonds without being a *Fashion Victim. 1992 R. Graef Living Dangerously i. 39 When the precious jeans were finally on board, he sheepishly conceded there was nothing he could point to which distinguished them from any others—except the label... I felt there was some value in hinting to them they might be fashion victims rather than connoisseurs. 1999 N.Y. Times Mag. 14 Nov. 87 (caption), I also had just gotten an asymmetrical buzz cut at Astor Place. I was a total MTV fashion victim.

▪ II. fashion, v.
    (ˈfæʃən)
    Forms: 5 facioun, 6 facion, -yon, fation, fasshion, 7 fashon, 6– fashion.
    [f. prec. n.; cf. F. fa{cced}onner.]
    1. trans. To give fashion or shape to; to form, mould, shape (either a material or immaterial object). Also, to fashion out.

1413 Lydg. Pilgr. Sowle iv. xxx. (1483) 78 That this statua be faciound duely and fourmed as it sholde. c 1500 Melusine 50 Tentes..so meruayllously facyoned. 1551 T. Wilson Logike (1580) 45 Leather when it is made or fashioned for the foote, is called a Shoe. 1608 D. T. Ess. Pol. & Mor. 66 b, To polish and fashion out his then rough-hewen fortune. 1611 Bible Job xxxi. 15 Did not one fashion vs in the wombe? 1690 Locke Hum. Underst. ii. ii. §2 Every one..who shall go about to fashion in his Understanding any simple Idea. 1697 Dryden Virgil, Life (1721) I. 41 A course Stone is presently fashion'd. 1713 Gay Fan i. 112 Poems (1720) I. 35 Here the loud hammer fashions female toys. 1812 H. & J. Smith Rej. Addr. (1813) 83 Our stage is so prettily fashion'd for viewing. 1838 Lytton Alice 28 Young people fashion and form each other. 1863 Lyell Antiq. Man 18 Fragments of rude pottery, fashioned by the hand. 1878 Musque Poets 76 The wish I might have fashioned died In dreams.

† b. Said of the constituent parts of anything.

1668 Culpepper & Cole Barthol. Anat. i. xx. 51 A Cavity fashioned by the Os sacrum, the Hip and Share-bones.

† c. To make good-looking; to beautify. Obs.

1557 N.T. (Genev.) Epist. **j, He was disfiguered to fashion vs, he dyed for our life.

2. a. To form, frame, make. rare.

c 1549 Hist. Lucres A ij b, Her browes bente, facioned with fewe heares. 1608 D. T. Ess. Pol. & Mor. 46 b, Favonnus..had reason..to fashion them this reply. 1840 Carlyle Heroes (1858) 304 Many have to perish, fashioning a path through the impassable. 1863 Longfellow Wayside Inn Prel. 275 The instrument..was fashioned of maple and of pine. 1880 E. Kirke Garfield 13 Bringing his saw and jackplane again into play, he fashioned companies..out of maple blocks.

† b. To contrive, manage. Obs.

c 1540 Pilgr. T. 79 in Thynne Animadv. App. i. 79 Then could he fation in the best wyce many a deynte dyche. 1590 Shakes. Mids. N. iii. ii. 194 They haue conioyned..To fashion this false sport. 1596 ― 1 Hen. IV, i. iii. 297 You, and Dowglas..As I will fashion it, shall happily meete. 1604 ― Oth. iv. ii. 242 His going thence, which I will fashion to fall out betweene twelue and one.

3. To give a specified shape to; to model according to, after, or like (something); to form † into (the shape of something); to shape into or to (something). Also refl. and † intr. for refl.

1526 Tindale Rom. viii. 29 Fasshioned unto the shape of his sonne. a 1585 Abp. Sandys Serm. (1841) 421 We are exhorted to fashion ourselves according to that similitude and likeness which is in him. 1599 Shakes. Much Ado iii. iii. 142 Fashioning them [the Hotblouds] like Pharaoes souldiours. 1634 Sir T. Herbert Trav. 151 Coines..fashioned like point-aglets. 1672–3 Grew Anat. Plants ii. ii. §31 The Mould; about which, the other more passive Principles gathering themselves, they all consort and fashion to it. 1774 J. Bryant Mythol. I. 467 This they fashioned to a conical figure. 1796 H. Hunter tr. St. Pierre's Stud. Nat. (1799) II. 149 Some of them are fashioned into the figure of shells. 1809 N. Pinkney Trav. France 242 Chairs fashioned according to the designs. 1866 Rogers Agric. & Prices I. xx. 508 A smith to fashion his steel into picks or awls. 1872 Bagehot Physics & Pol. (1876) 216 Communities which are fashioned after the structure of the elder world.

b. With complement or complementary obj.

1591 Shakes. 1 Hen. VI, iii. iii. 65 When Talbot hath..fashion'd thee that Instrument of Ill. 1605 ― Lear i. ii. 200 All with me's meete, that I can fashion fit.

† 4. To change the fashion of; to modify, transform. With compl. like, or const. to. Obs.

1528 Tindale Obed. Chr. Man 97 b, When a man fealeth..him selfe..altered and fascioned lyke vnto Christe. 1547 Homilies 1 Falling from God i. 1859 84 Be fashioned to him in all goodness requisite to the children of God. 1576 Fleming Panopl. Epist. 382 Fashion yourselfe to sobernesse. a 1592 H. Smith Serm. (1866) 312 Fashion thyself to Paul. 1601 Shakes. Jul. C. ii. i. 220 Send him but hither, and Ile fashion him. 1611 Bible Phil. iii. 21 Who shall change our vile bodie, that it may bee fashioned like vnto his glorious body. 1753 Foote Eng. in Paris Epil. Wks. 1799 I. 31 His roughness she'll soften, his figure she'll fashion.

† b. To counterfeit, pervert. Obs.

1599 Shakes. Much Ado i. iii. 31 It better fits my bloud to be disdain'd of all, then to fashion a carriage to rob loue from any. 1599 ― Hen. V, i. ii. 14 God forbid..That you should fashion, wrest, or bow your reading.

5. To give (a person or thing) a fashion or form suitable to or to do (something); to accomodate, adapt to. Also refl. and intr. for refl. Now rare.

1526 Tindale 1 Cor. ix. 22 In all thynge I fasshioned my silfe to all men. 1591 Shakes. Two Gent. iii. i. 135 How shall I fashion me to weare a cloake? 1599 ― Much Ado v. iv. 88 A halting sonnet..Fashioned to Beatrice. 1608 D. T. Ess. Pol. & Mor. 88 b, There are some that fashion themselves to nothing more, then how to become speculative into another. 1612 Brerewood Lang. & Relig. vi. 50 It was spoken corruptly, according as the peoples tongues would fashion to it. 1613 Shakes. Hen. VIII, iv. ii. 50 This Cardinall..fashion'd to much Honor From his Cradle. 1623 Massinger Dk. Milan ii. i, Lies..fashion'd to so damnable a purpose. 1630 R. Johnson's Kingd. & Commw. 529 We fashion our selves to extoll the ages past. 1770 Goldsm. Des Vill. 146 Doctrines fashioned to the varying hour. 1871 Tyndall Fragm. Sc. (1879) II. i. 3 These priests fashioned that which they did not understand to their respective wants and wishes.

† b. To present the form of; to represent. Obs.

1590–6 Spenser (title), The Faerie Queene, Disposed into twelve books fashioning XII Morall vertues.

c. intr. To bring oneself, ‘have the face’ (to do something). dial. (Cf. quot. 1591 in 5.)

1847 E. Brontë Wuthering Heights (1858) 11 Aw wonder how yah can faishion to stand theear i' idleness. Ibid. 29 She did fly up, asking how he could fashion to bring that gipsy brat into the house. 1883 Almondbury & Huddersf. Gloss., ‘Why don't you go and ask him for it?’ ‘I cannot fashion’.

6. Naut. (See quot.) Obs.

1769 Falconer Dict. Marine (1789) C iv b, The knees..fashion the transoms to the ship's side. [Ibid. supra: The knees which connect the beams to the sides.]

▪ III. fashion
var. of farcin Obs., farcy.