fashion

Definition

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

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.

Example Sentences

• "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."
• "Check out the latest in fashion."
• "He had always been interested in fashion, so he decided to take a sewing class."

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