Fashion

French Meaning

mode

façon

manière

vogue

façonner

modeler

fabriquer

confectionner

English Meaning

  1. The prevailing style or custom, as in dress or behavior: out of fashion.
  2. Something, such as a garment, that is in the current mode: a swimsuit that is the latest fashion.
  3. The style characteristic of the social elite: a man of fashion.
  4. Manner or mode; way: Set the table in this fashion.
  5. A personal, often idiosyncratic manner: played the violin in his own curious fashion.
  6. Kind or variety; sort: people of all fashions.
  7. Shape or form; configuration.
  8. To give shape or form to; make: fashioned a table from a redwood burl.
  9. To train or influence into a particular state or character.
  10. To adapt, as to a purpose or an occasion; accommodate.
  11. Obsolete To contrive.
  12. after In some way or other, especially to a limited extent: She sings after a fashion.