fashion

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   make out of components, often in an improvising manner

   They fashioned a tent out of a sheet and a few sticks.

2. 2
   noun

   A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons.

   The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years.

3. 3
   noun

   Popular trends, especially in clothing; the industry that designs clothing and sometimes other related items.

   Check out the latest in fashion.

4. 4
   noun

   A style or manner in which something is done.

   the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.

5. 5
   noun

   The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; workmanship; execution.

   I do not like the fashion of your garments.

6. 6
   noun

   Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding.

   men of fashion

7. 7
   verb

   To make, build or construct, especially in a crude or improvised way.

   1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IX I have three gourds which I fill with water and take back to my cave against the long nights. I have fashioned a spear and a bow and arrow, that I may conserve my ammunition, which is running low.

8. 8
   verb

   To make in a standard manner; to work.

   Fashioned plate sells for more than its weight.

Etymology

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.