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Fashion piece

資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Fashion \Fash"ion\, n. [OE. fasoun, facioun, shape, manner, F.
   facon, orig., a making, fr. L. factio a making, fr. facere to
   make. See {Fact}, {Feat}, and cf. {Faction}.]
   1. The make or form of anything; the style, shape,
      appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; as, the
      fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar,
      etc.; workmanship; execution.

            The fashion of his countenance was altered. --Luke
                                                  ix. 29.

            I do not like the fashion of your garments. --Shak.

   2. The prevailing mode or style, especially of dress; custom
      or conventional usage in respect of dress, behavior,
      etiquette, etc.; particularly, the mode or style usual
      among persons of good breeding; as, to dress, dance, sing,
      ride, etc., in the fashion.

            The innocent diversions in fashion.   --Locke.

            As now existing, fashion is a form of social
            regulation analogous to constitutional government as
            a form of political regulation.       --H. Spencer.

   3. Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position;
      good breeding; as, men of fashion.

   4. Mode of action; method of conduct; manner; custom; sort;
      way. ``After his sour fashion.'' --Shak.

   {After a fashion}, to a certain extent; in a sort.

   {Fashion piece} (Naut.), one of the timbers which terminate
      the transom, and define the shape of the stern.

   {Fashion plate}, a pictorial design showing the prevailing
      style or a new style of dress.
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