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." Shak.
After a fashion, to a certain extent; in a sort. -- 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.
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.
Here the loud hammer fashions female toys.
Gay.
Ingenious art . . . Steps forth to fashion and refine the age.
Cowper.