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fashion
What does fashion mean?
fashion (noun): popular trends, especially in clothing; the industry that designs clothing and sometimes other related items.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use fashion in a sentence?
- Check out the latest in fashion. (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0)
- He had always been interested in fashion, so he decided to take a sewing class. (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0)
How do you pronounce fashion?
/ˈfæʃən/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does fashion come from?
Inherited from Middle English facioun, from Anglo-Norman fechoun (compare Jersey Norman faichon), variant of Old French faceon, fazon, façon (“fashion, form, make, outward appearance”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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