fashion

Etymology

From Middle English facioun, from Anglo-Norman fechoun (compare Jersey Norman faichon), variant of Old French faceon, fazon, façon (“fashion, form, make, outward appearance”), from Latin factiō (“a making”), from faciō (“do, make”); see fact. Doublet of faction.

noun

1. (countable) A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons.
   The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years. 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess
2. (uncountable) Popular trends.
   Check out the latest in fashion.
   1874-1896, Herbert Spencer, Principles of Sociology Part IV As now existing, fashion is a form of social regulation analogous to constitutional government as a form of political regulation.
3. (countable) A style or manner in which something is done.
   It shell-shocked the home crowd, who quickly demanded a response, which came midway through the half and in emphatic fashion. October 1, 2011, Phil Dawkes, “Sunderland 2 - 2 West Brom”, in BBC Sport
4. The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; workmanship; execution.
   the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.
5. (dated) Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding.
   men of fashion

verb

1. To make, build or construct, especially in a crude or improvised way.
   1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IX I have three gourds which I fill with water and take back to my cave against the long nights. I have fashioned a spear and a bow and arrow, that I may conserve my ammunition, which is running low.
   […] a device fashioned by arguments against that kind of prey. 2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 235b
2. (dated) To make in a standard manner; to work.
3. (dated) To fit, adapt, or accommodate to.
4. (obsolete) To forge or counterfeit.