fashion

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The popular styles of clothing at a particular time, and the industry that creates them.

   She works in the fashion industry as a designer.

2. 2
   noun

   A way or manner in which something is done.

   He organized his desk in a neat and orderly fashion.

3. 3
   verb

   To make or shape something, often in a simple or improvised way.

   They fashioned a shelter out of branches and leaves.

Common collocations

• fashion show Adjective + noun

Inherited from Middle English facioun, from Anglo-Norman fechoun (compare Jersey Norman faichon), variant of Old French faceon, fazon, façon (“fashion, form, make, outward appearance”), from Latin factiō (“a making”), from faciō (“do, make”); see fact. Doublet of faction.

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