Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being fashionable; modish elegance; conformity to the prevailing custom or style, especially in dress.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun State of being fashionable.
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- noun The state of being
fashionable ;stylishness ;elegance .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The MFA writing system, with its mechanisms of circulating popularity and fashionableness, leans heavily on the easily imitable.
The 15 Most Overrated Contemporary American Writers (PHOTOS) 2010
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The MFA writing system, with its mechanisms of circulating popularity and fashionableness, leans heavily on the easily imitable.
Anis Shivani: The 15 Most Overrated Contemporary American Writers (PHOTOS) Anis Shivani 2010
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The MFA writing system, with its mechanisms of circulating popularity and fashionableness, leans heavily on the easily imitable.
Anis Shivani: The 15 Most Overrated Contemporary American Writers (PHOTOS) 2010
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The fashionableness of such places is fleeting, but whether a project is ephemeral or monumental, minimalist or ornate, rational or nutty, the city seems to embrace almost any creative impulse and revel in the strange juxtapositions that result.
The Barcelona Way 2008
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If she is deciding on athletic shoes, the fashionableness of various brands may weigh heavily — or even be the overwhelming factor — in his choice.
Consumer society 2007
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Magnin dress must be fashionable, except where such fashionableness would, in fact, be frumpy conflict with rule #1.
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Magnin dress must be fashionable, except where such fashionableness would, in fact, be frumpy conflict with rule #1.
September 2006 2006
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Then the imaginary spectators would fall a-talking of the fashionableness of bicycling, — how judges And stockbrokers and actresses and, in fact, all the best people rode, and how that it was often the fancy of such great folk to shun the big hotels, the adulation of urban crowds, and seek, incognito, the cosy quaintnesses of village life.
The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll Herbert George 2006
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It was as if the idolised maxim of his own youth ‘Show no emotion,’ and all the fashionableness that, under the aegis of his mother Emily, had clung about Park Lane, were revisiting him in the shape of this languid beggar.
Swan Song 2004
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