fashionable

Etymology

fashion + -able

adj

  1. Characteristic of or influenced by a current popular trend or style.
    a fashionable dress
    a fashionable man
  2. Established or favoured by custom or use; current; prevailing at a particular time.
    the fashionable philosophy
    fashionable opinions
  3. (archaic) genteel; well-bred
    fashionable society

noun

  1. A fashionable person; a fop.
    We speculated upon the astonishment that would have seized upon their simple, innocent hearts, had they beheld, instead of us, a bevy of our city fashionables in full bloom. 1860, Various, Atlantic Monthly, Vol. VI.,October, 1860.--No. XXXVI.
    In large measure the Metropolitan is a show-case for rich fashionables who are not trained in Wagnerian music and have no reverence for it, but who like to promote art and show their clothes. 1891, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), “At the Shrine of St. Wagner”, in What Is Man? and Other Essays
    A few, perhaps, have a further purpose; they desire to assist in that circus, to show themselves in the capacity of fashionables, to enchant the yokelry with their splendor. September 20, 1991, George Grass, “Star Show”, in Chicago Reader

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