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発音

• IPA: /ˈfæʃənəbl̩/

形容詞

fashionable (comparative more fashionable, superlative most fashionable)

1. Characteristic of or influenced by a current popular trend or style; in fashion; in vogue.

   Synonyms: styleworthy; see also Thesaurus:fashionable

   Antonyms: see Thesaurus:unfashionable

   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

   • c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii], column 1:

     For time is like a faſhionable Hoſte / That ſlightly ſhakes his parting Gueſt by th'hand;

派生語

派生した語

• → Danish: fashionabel
• → French: fashionable
• → German: fashionable

名詞

fashionable (plural fashionables)

1. A fashionable person; a fop.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:dandy, Thesaurus:fashionable person

   • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:

     Just as I was stepping up to offer my hand to a very pleasing and witty fashionable, the brilliant and exclusive Mrs. Rawdon Crawley,"—he wrote […]

   • 1860, Various, Atlantic Monthly, Vol. VI.,October, 1860.--No. XXXVI.‎:

     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.

   • 1891, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), “At the Shrine of St. Wagner”, in What Is Man? and Other Essays‎:

     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.

   • 1991 September 20, George Grass, “Star Show”, in Chicago Reader‎:

     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.