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| antifashionable |
combined form of fashionable. |
| beau monde |
the world of high and fashionable society. |
| boutique |
a small shop, esp. one specializing in gifts or fashionable clothes and accessories. |
| buzzword |
a fashionable, short-lived word or phrase that originates either in media use or in a specialized group, and that is intended to impress or exclude the hearer, because of its apparent profundity or significance. |
| chic |
elegant or fashionable; stylish. [1/2 definitions] |
| chichi |
ostentatiously showy or fashionable. |
| comedy of manners |
a comedy that satirizes the customs and manners of fashionable society. |
| conversation piece |
an eighteenth-century genre picture that depicts a group of fashionable people in an appropriate setting. [1/2 definitions] |
| couture |
those who design, make, and market fashionable clothing, considered collectively. [1/2 definitions] |
| couturier |
someone in the business of designing, making, and marketing fashionable clothing. |
| exclusive |
giving attention or service only to certain types of people, esp. those who are rich, fashionable, or privileged. [1/5 definitions] |
| gallant |
a fashionable or courtly young man. [1/7 definitions] |
| haut monde |
(French) rich, prominent, or fashionable people; high society. |
| hip4 |
aware of, participating in, or belonging to the latest fashions in music, language, clothing, and the like; cool or fashionable. [1/2 definitions] |
| hoop skirt |
a long, full skirt, fashionable in the eighteenth century, that was made to bell out by hoops worn beneath. |
| in |
(informal) powerful or fashionable. [1/12 definitions] |
| jet set |
a group of fashionable, wealthy people who reputedly travel by jet from one resort to another. |
| man about town |
a man whose worldly social life and knowledge of fashionable places keep him in public notice. |
| modish |
being in or according to current fashion or style; fashionable. |
| modiste |
one who designs, makes, or deals in fashionable or stylish clothes, esp. women's dresses and hats. |
| now |
(slang) currently fashionable. [1/11 definitions] |
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