n. & v.
n. 1 the current popular custom or style, esp. in dress or social conduct. 2 a manner or style of doing something (in a peculiar fashion). 3 (in comb.) in a specified manner (walk crab-fashion). 4 fashionable society (a woman of fashion).
v.tr. (often foll. by into) make into a particular or the required form. after (or in) a fashion as well as is practicable, though not satisfactorily. in (or out of) fashion fashionable (or not fashionable) at the time in question. fashioner n.
[ ME f. AF fasun, OF façon, f. L factio -onis f. facere fact- do, make ]