The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out offashion for the best part of the next hundred years.
1900 [1879],Herbert Spencer,Principles of Sociology, volume II, part IV: Ceremonial Institutions,page215:
As now existing,fashion is a form of social regulation analogous to constitutional government as a form of political regulation: displaying, as it does, a compromise between governmental coercion and individual freedom.
When it had advanced from the wood, it hopped much after thefashion of a kangaroo, using its hind feet and tail to propel it, and when it stood erect, it sat upon its tail.
2011 October 1, Phil Dawkes, “Sunderland 2 - 2 West Brom”, inBBC Sport[1]:
It shell-shocked the home crowd, who quickly demanded a response, which came midway through the half and in emphaticfashion.
The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; workmanship; execution.
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I have three gourds which I fill with water and take back to my cave against the long nights. I havefashioned a spear and a bow and arrow, that I may conserve my ammunition, which is running low.
2005,Plato, translated by Lesley Brown,Sophist, page235b:
[…] a devicefashioned by arguments against that kind of prey.
1691, [John Locke],Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering of Interest, and Raising the Value of Money.[…], London:[…]Awnsham and John Churchill,[…], published1692,→OCLC:
1596 (date written; published1633),Edmund Spenser,A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande[…], Dublin:[…] Societie of Stationers,[…],→OCLC; republished asA View of the State of Ireland[…] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin:[…] Society of Stationers,[…] Hibernia Press,[…][b]y John Morrison,1809,→OCLC:
Laws ought to befashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people.
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