Fash·ion n.
1. The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; as, the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.; workmanship; execution.
The fashion of his countenance was altered. --Luke ix. 29.
I do not like the fashion of your garments. --Shak.
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.
The innocent diversions in fashion. --Locke.
As now existing, fashion is a form of social regulation analogous to constitutional government as a form of political regulation. --H. Spencer.
3. Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding; as, men of fashion.
4. Mode of action; method of conduct; manner; custom; sort; way. “After his sour fashion.”
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.