Word Finder - fashions

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A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons.

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Popular trends.

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Check out the latest in fashion.

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A style or manner in which something is done.

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The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; workmanship; execution.

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the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.

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Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding.

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men of fashion

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To make, build or construct, especially in a crude or improvised way.

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To make in a standard manner; to work.

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To fit, adapt, or accommodate to.

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To forge or counterfeit.

One remarkable man, Giuseppe Briati, exerted himself, with much success, both in working in the old Venetian method and also in imitating the new fashions invented in Bohemia.

The fashions of head-covering and clothes are very various, but several of them - e.g.

Traces of late Celtic art are singularly absent; Roman fashions rule supreme, and inscriptions show that even the lower classes here spoke and wrote Latin.

They reached the trendy teahouse in the wealthy section of DC, Hannah still talking about Paris fashions.

They were the result partly of the influence of the secular fashions, but more particularly of considerations of convenience.

Thus he says that nature fashions organs in the order of their necessity, the first being those essential to life.

The figures are no longer abstractions; they are concrete examples of the folly of the bibliophile who collects books but learns nothing from them, of the evil judge who takes bribes to favour the guilty, of the old fool whom time merely strengthens in his folly, of those who are eager to follow the fashions, of the priests who spend their time in church telling "gestes" of Robin Hood and so forth.

The policy of the First Consul was to transform them into tributaries which copied with chameleonic fidelity the political fashions he himself set at Paris.

By the side of these greater things it may seem little, and yet, just because it is little, it is all the more significant that the Crusades should have familiarized Europe with new plants, new fruits, new manufactures, new colours, and new fashions in dress.

The secular fashions altered with changes of taste; but the Church retained the dress with the other traditions of the Roman Empire.

Fashions changed in quick succession; upper clases were successively copied by those beneath them and were forced to ensure their dignity by assuming new styles.

Mrs Pepys went on one occasion specially to observe the fashions of the ladies because she was then "making some clothes."

Across the arms he balances the iron rod to which the glass bulb adheres, and rolling it backwards and forwards with the fingers of his left hand fashions the glass between the blades of his sugar-tongs tool, grasped in his right hand.

But a sharp distinction has to be drawn between the method of Seifu and that of the other six ceramists mentioned above as following Chinese fashions.

The Celtic language reappeared; the Celtic art emerged from its shelters in the west to develop in new and medieval fashions.

Yet the types, both in armour and dress, remained essentially Teutonic - or rather Celtic-Teutonic. Indeed, when in the course of time uniformity came to prevail over the greater part of Europe, it was the Teutonic rather than the Roman fashions which were generalized.

The town presents, therefore, a cosmopolitan and on market days a very varied appearance, when side by side with people turned out in the latest fashions from Paris or Vienna, we meet peasants of various nationalities, attired in their national costume, intermingled with very scantilyclad Gypsies.

Without being so forward as the rival city of Augsburg to embrace the architectural fashions of the Italian renaissance - continuing, indeed, to be profoundly imbued with the old and homely German burgher spirit, and to wear, in a degree which time has not very much impaired even yet, the quaintness of the old German civic aspect - she had imported before the close of the 15th century a fair share of the new learning of Italy, and numbered among her citizens distinguished humanists like Hartmann Schedel, Sebald Schreier, Willibald Pirkheimer and Conrad Celtes.

He groups his materials with small regard to chronological order; and he fashions our of the many scattered sayings of our Lord continuous discourses, everywhere bringing like to like, with considerable literary art.

Many other fashions which it would be difficult to describe can best be learned by studying pictures with the help of a competent teacher.

It was originally the outof -doors and domestic dress of lay-people as well as clergy, and its survival among the latter when the secular fashions had changed is merely the outcome of ecclesiastical conservatism.

The business of a sound theology was to discover and apply those laws, not to patch up fleeting compromises with the intellectual fashions of an age.

To a large extent retting continues to be conducted in the primitive fashions above described, although numerous and persistent attempts have been made to improve upon it, or to avoid the process altogether.

They adapted themselves very quickly indeed to many Italian fashions.

He dwells with delight on the unselfish patriotism of the old heroes of the republic. In those times children obeyed their parents, the gods were still sincerely worshipped, poverty was no disgrace, sceptical philosophies and foreign fashions in religion and in daily life were unknown.

It is a curious fact, illustrative of the ignorant procedure and arbitrary fashions of fisher-folk, that on the Atlantic seaboard of the United States the sea mussel, Mytilus edulis, though common, is not used as bait nor as food.

The Ronas, who form the chief caste and fighting race of the Chitral districts, originally came from the north, but they have adopted the language and fashions of the conquered Chitrali.

The loose atheistical wits at Will's might write such stuff to divert the painted Jezebels of the court; but did it become a minister of the gospel to copy the evil fashions of the world?

For in Palermo under the Norman kings Christians of both rites, Mahommedans and Jews were all allowed to flourish after their several fashions.

An absolutely new conception of experience was necessary, if the fact of cognition was to be explained at all, and the various modes in which Kant expresses the business of his critical philosophy were merely different fashions of stating the one ultimate problem, differing according to the particular aspect of knowledge which he happened to have in view.

The fashions presented were the epitome of the style of the 1930s.

Seasonal displays can easily be achieved using the carousel, and specific promotions or new trends highlighted as fashions change.

The focus is on UK street sport and denim fashions and on-site facilities will include Chill-Out bars interactive information stations and virtual catwalks.

We wish to excite the envy of our untraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can't shake off.

I won't try to start new fads or fashions.

The wives, too, were rather grand, wearing what seemed to be Paris fashions.

By the end of the Middle Ages fashions changed and most were abandoned, leaving the wooden manor houses to slowly decay.

New Styles of dress could be bought for less money and the fashions changed more quickly.

A favorite is the navy, silk organza tulip dress which plays with the lengths and layers of typically 20s fashions.

Bacton Fashions itself was located in an industrial unit along with other clothing sweatshops.

Historically, that has led to such things as fashions in, say, the removal of children's tonsils, or in grommets.

Meanwhile the intrepid group of painters in oil plod along unflinchingly, having formed themselves into an association (the hakuba-kai) which gives periodical exhibitions, and there are, in Tokyo and KiOto, wellorganized and flourishing art schools which receive a substantial measure of state aid, as well as a private academy founded by Okakura with a band of seceders from the hybrid fashions of the GahO system.

Many of the literary journals did not disdain to occupy themselves with the fashions, but the first periodical of any merit specially devoted to the subject was the Bazar (1855).

Such changes as occur come about, not in consequence of a new direction taken by conscious policy, but rather in the way that fashions in dress alter amongst ourselves, by subconscious, hardly purposive drifting.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

It is the luxurious and dissipated who set the fashions which the herd so diligently follow.

Nearest to all things is that power which fashions their being.

Early in the morning, while all things are crisp with frost, men come with fishing-reels and slender lunch, and let down their fine lines through the snowy field to take pickerel and perch; wild men, who instinctively follow other fashions and trust other authorities than their townsmen, and by their goings and comings stitch towns together in parts where else they would be ripped.

He could talk about rural economy with the count, fashions with the countess and Natasha, and about albums and fancywork with Sonya.

Like many of today 's fashions however, it was nothing new, just a rework of an earlier theme.