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fashion

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" Fashion " is a track from David Bowie 's 1980 album Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) . It was released as the second single from the album and was accompanied, like its predecessor " Ashes to Ashes ", by a highly regarded music video.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, fasoun , "physical make-up or composition; form, shape; appearance," from Old French façon , fachon , fazon "face, appearance; construction, pattern, design; thing done; beauty; manner, characteristic feature" (12c.), from Latin factionem (nominative ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fashion \Fash"ion\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fashioned ; p. pr. & vb. n. Fashioning .] [Cf. F. faconner.] To form; to give shape or figure to; to mold. Here the loud hammer fashions female toys. --Gay. Ingenious art . . . Steps forth to fashion and refine the ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a fashion consultant (= one who advises people on what to wear ) ▪ It would be great to have your own fashion consultant. a fashion designer (= for clothes ) ▪ the well-known fashion designer, Giorgio Armani a haphazard ...

Usage examples of fashion.

Jessy retorted in an absently teasing fashion as her glance strayed to the activity at the headgate.

For This, the Beauty supreme, the absolute, and the primal, fashions Its lovers to Beauty and makes them also worthy of love.

Margland was a woman of family and fashion, but reduced, through the gaming and extravagance of her father, to such indigence, that, after sundry failures in higher attempts, she was compelled to acquiesce in the good offices of her friends, which placed her as a governess in the house of Sir Hugh.

A couched spear of acuminated granite rested by him while at his feet reposed a savage animal of the canine tribe whose stertorous gasps announced that he was sunk in uneasy slumber, a supposition confirmed by hoarse growls and spasmodic movements which his master repressed from time to time by tranquilising blows of a mighty cudgel rudely fashioned out of paleolithic stone.

Meg went about from house to house, begging deadclothes, and got the body straighted in a wonderful decent manner, with a plate of earth and salt placed upon it--an admonitory type of mortality and eternal life that has ill-advisedly gone out of fashion.

Many fashion items as well as household products benefit fi-om being advertised in color.

Felicia took note of the fashionably low neckline, and her hand crept up to ringer the delicate aerophane crepe that fashioned the upper portion of her bodice, then formed a ruff at her neck.

Ballard fashions an affectless, yet strangely compelling, lyricism from our industrial and information-media leftovers.

In this fashion they ran for fifteen or twenty miles on a perfectly even keel, the apparatus automatically working the elevators and ailerons of the craft as various wind currents tended to disturb its equilibrium.

He yelped in a most unmaesterlike fashion, while Alayne turned to soothe the little lordling, but too late.

He thought it went a long way towards nullifying the effects of aldehyde loaded Vietnamese wine and beer in some fashion known only to extinct alchemists or Dupont scientists, perhaps.

Presumably for Sartre, if Pablo had been a communist, he might have been sustained by his sense of group-membership, whereas, as an Anarchist, he acts individualistically, in aleatory fashion.

She or he would be drinking in heroic fashion, perhaps yards of real Earth ale, shooting them back with raw alk boiling in dry ice.

We had quite enough to do to prevent ourselves from being served in the same ruthless fashion, and now and then, in the more violent gusts of wind, were glad to stick our alpenstocks into the ice and hold on hard.

The chief actress, one Mistress Cleone Dubois playing Belinda, was on the stage being reconciled to her husband, Amoroso, after having discomforted Lackwit in no uncertain fashion.