What does "fashionable" mean?
Fashionable: Established or favored by custom or use; current; prevailing at a particular time; as, the fashionable philosophy; fashionable opinions.
Additional senses
- 2.Observant of the fashion or customary mode; dressing or behaving according to the prevailing fashion; as, a fashionable man.
- 3.Genteel; well-bred; as, fashionable society. Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand. Shak.
- 4.A person who conforms to the fashions; -- used chiefly in the plural.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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