Noun
Jewelry and clothing fashions vary with the season.
Short skirts have come back into fashion.
Those ruffled blouses went out of fashion years ago.
She always wears the latest fashions.
Literary fashions have changed in recent years.
We started the meeting in an orderly fashion.
We all lined up in orderly fashion. Verb
Students fashioned the clay into small figures.
She used the scraps of fabric to fashion a little doll's dress.
a table fashioned out of an old door See More
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Noun
Breaking the rules isn't exactly a new concept in fashion.—Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY, 20 Jan. 2023 Apart from fashion and culture, art has also added to the city’s vibrancy.—Bird Story Agency, Quartz, 19 Jan. 2023 Andre Leon Talley will always remain a towering figure in fashion; forever woven within the DNA of the industry.—Isiah Magsino, Town & Country, 17 Jan. 2023 Shades of green for everything from fashion to furniture were hugely popular in the '70s.—Hannah Oh, Seventeen, 13 Jan. 2023 Given fresh life were frescoes from the latest fashion in Pompeii wall decoration before the flourishing city was buried under the volcanic ash furiously spewing from Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.—Francesco Sportelli, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Jan. 2023 Given fresh life were frescoes from the latest fashion in Pompeii wall decoration before the flourishing city was buried under the volcanic ash furiously spewing from Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.—Francesco Sportelli, Fortune, 10 Jan. 2023 Hendrix is continuing to seek employment and hopes to pursue his longtime interest in fashion by designing a high-end men’s dress sock.—Jack Lee, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Jan. 2023 For now, take a look through the good, bad, and messy of this week in fashion.—Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 7 Jan. 2023
Verb
Hamid Khan, a member of the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, sees the LAPD’s interest in Spot as part of a broader push by police to fashion themselves after the military with increasingly high-tech tools.—Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2022 It’s part of the job of CTOs and other innovators to dissect them, take the pieces and maybe fashion them into something truly remarkable that solves a compelling business need.—Claus Jepsen, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022 Grab some paper bags, tape, and leaves, of course, and let those little hands fashion themselves a festive crown.—Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 19 July 2022 According to Ingo Hasselbach, a reformed far-right activist who spent time in prison in the late 1980s, on Adolf Hitler’s birthday Nazi prisoners would paint swastikas on toilet paper and fashion them into armbands.—Longreads, 6 July 2022 Throwing glasses on him to fashion him into a mastermind is a joke that was better told by Michael Mann’s Blackhat, which knew when to take those glasses off.—K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 20 June 2022 Attach child-sized mittens with straight pins and fashion a bow from a length of yarn.—Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 19 Dec. 2022 And what lessons can fashion learn from Patagonia’s Yvon Chouinard, who gave away his company with the goal of combating climate change.—José Criales-unzueta, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2022 That’s where the swerving paths of Wideman’s fiction lead: to the prison, the plantation, the ghetto, the street, places where black people are brutalized and must fashion a life.—Tobi Haslett, The New York Review of Books, 1 Dec. 2022 See More
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Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English fasoun, fasioun, fascioun, facioun, borrowed from Anglo-French façun, fauschoun "production, construction, appearance, form, sort, manner," going back to Latin factiōn-, factiō "act of making," from facere "to make, bring about, do" + -tiōn-, -tiō, suffix of verbal action — more at fact
Note:
The Anglo-French form with a hushing consonant that was borrowed into Middle English reflects the Picard outcome of the Latin cluster [ktj]. A doublet of faction.
Verb
Middle English fascionen, in part verbal derivative of fasciounfashion entry 1, in part borrowed from Middle French façonner, derivative of façonfashion entry 1
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