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IN FASHION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does in fashion mean?
• IN FASHION (adjective)
The adjective IN FASHION has 1 sense:
1. popular and considered appealing or fashionable at the time
Familiarity information: IN FASHION used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Popular and considered appealing or fashionable at the time
Synonyms:
fashionable; in fashion
Similar:
popular (regarded with great favor, approval, or affection especially by the general public)
Context examples
In fashion distantly resembling the way men look upon the gods they create, so looked White Fang upon the man-animals before him.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
It took them half the night to pitch a slovenly camp, and half the morning to break that camp and get the sled loaded in fashion so slovenly that for the rest of the day they were occupied in stopping and rearranging the load.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
The two younger of the trio (fine girls of sixteen and seventeen) had grey beaver hats, then in fashion, shaded with ostrich plumes, and from under the brim of this graceful head-dress fell a profusion of light tresses, elaborately curled; the elder lady was enveloped in a costly velvet shawl, trimmed with ermine, and she wore a false front of French curls.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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