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fashionable, a. and n.|ˈfæʃənəb(ə)l|
[f. fashion v. and n. + -able.]
A. adj.
†1. Capable of being fashioned, shaped, or moulded. Const. to, unto. Of a damaged article: Capable of being brought into shape. Obs.
1607Hieron Wks. I. 238 Hee that..can endure the hewing, and groweth more and more fashionable vnto good things. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xvi. (1632) 835 Nine yeares olde, a most fashionable and waxen age for all impression. 1614Jackson Creed iii. viii. Wks. II. 256 Peter's..power by them [keys]..to exclude all that were not fashionable to this rock and corner stone. 1623Rowlandson God's Bless. 27 Could the iron be pliable and fashionable to the minde of the smith. 1656in Picton L'pool Munic. Rec. (1883) I. 152 Some cups are broken and not fashionable.
†b. Conformable to. Obs.
1657R. Carpenter Astrology 15 It is most fashionable to Reason, That Job, by Musick..understands [etc.].
†2. Pertaining to outward form or ceremony; merely formal. Obs. (Cf. fashion n. 7.)
1614Bp. Hall Recoll. Treat. 612 A fashionable observation of the outwarde Letter. 1633― Hard Texts 110 His fashionable disciples..went away from him. a1656― Soliloquies 73 Not that we should..fall suddenly into a fashionable devotion. 1616S. Ward Coal from Altar (1627) 47 No maruell if his seruice be formall and fashionable. Ibid. 82 To confess the truth of the fashionable Christian.
†3. Of a good fashion or appearance; goodlooking, stylish. Also, fashionable-like. Obs.
1630R. Johnson's Kingd. & Commw. 135 We have fashionable attendance. 1663Gerbier Counsel D iij a, Some of them Bear-like-whelps (by licking and smoothing) have gotten some fashionable like shape. 1719De Foe Crusoe i. 244 A Cap..made of a Hare-skin, very convenient and fashionable enough. 1720Lond. Gaz. No. 5865/4 A light dapple grey Nag..fashionable and full aged.
4. a. Of persons: Observant of or following the fashion; dressing or behaving in conformity with the standard of elegance current in upper-class society.
1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. iii. iii. 165 A fashionable Hoste..slightly shakes his parting Guest by th' hand. 1609W. M. Man in Moone (1849) 42 A finicall fellow he is, and very fashionable. 1738Chesterfield Common Sense 11 Feb. No. 16 Taste is now the fashionable Word of the fashionable World. 1816Remarks Eng. Mann. 86 Nor do I believe a less fashionable man would have paid any attention. 1845Florist's Jrnl. 139 A numerous and fashionable company. 1892Speaker 30 July 141/1 Reviewers are apt to be..slavishly fashionable in adjectives.
absol.1790H. More Relig. Fash. World (1791) 1 The polite and the fashionable.
b. Of things, esp. dress: Conformable to fashion; in accordance with prevailing usage; of the kind in vogue among persons of the upper class. Of immaterial things: Approved by custom, generally accepted, current (now in depreciatory sense).
1608W. Sclater Malachy (1650) 103 It..was grown so fashionable, that it seemed to be no sin. 1639Fuller Holy War iii. vi. (1840) 125 His..attire more fashionable. 1650― Pisgah ii. viii. 177 Such chariots were..fashionable in their fights. 1665Glanvill Scep. Sci. Add. to R. Soc. 62 The eminence of your condition will..make philosophy fashionable. 1668Rokeby Let. 6 Oct. in Mem. (Surtees) 17 A rideing cloake of ye best worsted camlett of a fashionable sorte. 1700Dryden Fables, Pygmalion 45 Fashionable robes her person deck. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. III. 229 The fashionable opinions of the court. 1823Lamb Elia (1860) 157 A newer and more fashionable mansion. 1825J. Neal Bro. Jonathan II. 329 A fashionable dress. 1848Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 515 Artificial ringlets clustering in fashionable profusion round his shoulders. 1866Geo. Eliot F. Holt 119 His illusions..were not of a fashionable sort.
5. a. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of persons of fashion. b. Treating of the world of fashion. c. Frequented or patronized by people of fashion.
a.1712Steele Spect. No. 504 ⁋4 These rascals..carried it with a fashionable haughty air. 1790H. More Relig. Fash. World (1791) 221 That mode of life emphatically distinguished by the appellation of fashionable. 1884J. Hall A Chr. Home 75 A hollow and conventional ‘fashionable life’.
b.1831Carlyle Sart. Res. (1858) 169 Nor are Sacred Books wanting to the Sect [of the Dandies]; these they call Fashionable Novels. 1882C. Pebody Eng. Journal. xi. 78 The Morning Post..made a name for itself by its fresh and sparkling paragraphs of Court and fashionable gossip.
c.1815tr. Duc de Levis's Engl. 19th Cent. i. 170 Ranelagh pleases them much: it is even called fashionable [orig. il recoit même l'épithète de fashionable]. 1838Emerson Nat., 'Lit. Ethics Wks. (Bohn) II. 214 In fashionable or political saloons. 1839Hood Up the Rhine 43 The Waal branch of the fashionable river. 1848Dickens Dombey xviii, Burgess & Co.,—fashionable tailors (but very dear). 1877Johnston Dict. Geog. 1234/1 Scarborough..is now the most fashionable watering-place on the N.E. coast. 1881M. E. Herbert Edith 1 And drew up at a door in a fashionable quarter.
B. n. A fashionable person. Chiefly in pl.
a1800T. Bellamy Beggar Boy (1801) I. 178 All the fashionables in town. 1800H. Wells Constantia Neville I. 240 That he was merely a fashionable, she could not believe. 1800Sporting Mag. XV. 265 Our fair fashionables. 1834Medwin Angler in Wales II. 150 Fashionables of all countries. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair xlix, A very pleasing and witty fashionable. 1883Mrs. E. Lynn Linton Girl of Period II. 11 She will probably end her days as a frantic Fashionable. |