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The fashion of his countenance was altered. --Luke ix. 29.
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I do not like the fashion of your garments. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

2. The prevailing mode or style, especially of dress; custom or conventional usage in respect of dress, behavior,
etiquette, etc.; particularly, the mode or style usual
among persons of good breeding; as, to dress, dance, sing,
ride, etc., in the fashion.
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The innocent diversions in fashion. --Locke. [1913 Webster]

As now existing, fashion is a form of social regulation analogous to constitutional government as
a form of political regulation. --H. Spencer.
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3. Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding; as, men of fashion.
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4. Mode of action; method of conduct; manner; custom; sort; way. ``After his sour fashion. --Shak.
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After a fashion, to a certain extent; of a sort; sort of.

Fashion piece (Naut.), one of the timbers which terminate the transom, and define the shape of the stern.

Fashion plate, a pictorial design showing the prevailing style or a new style of dress.
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Fashion Fash"ion, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fashioned; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fashioning}.] [Cf. F. faconner.]
1. To form; to give shape or figure to; to mold.
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Here the loud hammer fashions female toys. --Gay. [1913 Webster]

Ingenious art . . . Steps forth to fashion and refine the age. --Cowper.
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2. To fit; to adapt; to accommodate; -- with to. [1913 Webster]

Laws ought to be fashioned to the manners and conditions of the people. --Spenser.
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3. To make according to the rule prescribed by custom. [1913 Webster]

Fashioned plate sells for more than its weight. --Locke.
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4. To forge or counterfeit. Obs. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

Fashioning needle (Knitting Machine), a needle used for widening or narrowing the work and thus shaping it.
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Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English