ˈfashion-monger
[f. fashion n. + monger.]
One who studies and follows the fashion or fashions.
| 1599 Marston Sco. Villanie 166 Each quaint fashion-monger, whose sole repute Rests in his trim gay clothes. 1624 Heywood Gunaik. vi. 298 Wild fashion-mongers, and fantasticke gallants. 1782 European Mag. I. 247 A knot of fashion-mongers assembled in the drawing room of a French dancer. 1826 Miss Mitford Village Ser. ii. (1863) 425 A thrifty fashion-monger. |
Hence † fashion-monging ppl. a.
| 1599 Shakes. Much Ado v. i. 94 Fashion-monging boyes. |