adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a fashionable district (= popular with rich or well-known people )
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Brompton became a fashionable district to live in.
a fashionable resort
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Hastings was a once fashionable resort.
a trendy/fashionable restaurant (= one that is influenced by the most fashionable styles and ideas )
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The hotel is surrounded by elegant boutiques and trendy restaurants.
fashionable/trendy clothes
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The club was full of beautiful people wearing trendy clothes.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
currently
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This approach contravenes currently fashionable Human Factors methodology that there should be a formal attempt to carry out man-machine allocation.
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Also excluded are the currently fashionable workshops and seminars on such provocative topics as diversity, group sensitivity, and gender politics.
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It is currently fashionable to forswear flesh eating in the interests of animal rights or a lower cholesterol level.
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Complex hierarchies need to be flattened, but that is not because flat organizations are currently fashionable .
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Our more significant and currently fashionable meeting-point with biology is not at the level of race, but at that of species.
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It becomes of particular significance within the currently fashionable company policy of separating core and peripheral employees.
less
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Today, regrettably, Churchillian honesty in high places is less fashionable .
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Most of the remaining communal flats are in less desirable buildings in less fashionable parts of town.
more
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It was considered rather more fashionable than Vauxhall Gardens, but its popularity did not last as long.
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The trim is the shirt; here you can live it up, get a touch more fashionable .
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Entomology became more fashionable once better killing bottles provided the squeamish with a less offensive method of collecting specimens.
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However, vauDe are convinced of its merits and are co-operating with Nick Brown to create a more fashionable version.
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She did not throw clothes away if she could mend them or alter them to make them more fashionable .
most
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Men's fashion often gets overlooked in the race to predict the latest and most fashionable trends in womens' clothes.
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This genteel neighborhood of tree-lined streets and solid apartment houses used to be the most fashionable address in Lima.
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It may not be the most fashionable branch of medicine but it puts thousands of patients on hospital waiting lists each year.
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Among the civilians were ladies in their most fashionable eve-ning attire, for a grand spring ball had been interrupted.
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It is now most fashionable but once housed the poor.
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This street would not look out of place in London's most fashionable shopping district.
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One of the most fashionable hotels in the city.
so
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Satan must be pleased to be so fashionable again.
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And besides, as she discovered, it was becoming so fashionable !
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Double jacquard is so fashionable this season that most people would love to receive a sweater or jacket knitted by this technique.
very
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Drink and drugs were derigeur and sleeping around was still very fashionable .
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And lastly, the very fashionable Pickled Pine Collection.
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Party piece Pretty beaded jewellery is very fashionable right now and we think this necklace is a stunner.
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Some items of warm clothing may not seem very fashionable today, but they can be very effective.
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A style favoured by Empress Eugenie and very fashionable at the time.
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This folly was the first of its kind at a time when all things gothic suddenly became very fashionable .
■ NOUN
area
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It was a prosperous and fashionable area in CD's days but deteriorated into a slum in the late nineteenth century.
clothes
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She could hear Tess moving about, and then saw Tess leave the house, fully dressed in her fashionable clothes .
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But they also must have fashionable clothes .
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Tess was wearing fashionable clothes , and looked even more beautiful than he remembered.
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Everybody was wearing very expensive, fashionable clothes too!
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I would really like to wear some fashionable clothes on the slopes but haven't got a clue where to start looking.
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Georgiana, on the other hand, was still pretty but very fat, and wore extremely fashionable clothes .
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Wearing fashionable clothes might give us more confidence, but we can gain that through thousands of other more important things.
resort
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Down Niddry Street stands the charming concert hall which was a fashionable resort in the eighteenth century.
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Smaller stations, however, like that at the fashionable resort of Hua Hin, adopted a local multi-roofed pagoda style.
woman
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Consequently, fashionable women of 1910 could wear flowing, sinuous shapes in dramatic hues.
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She bore little resemblance to the fashionable woman she had been just a few weeks ago.
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Where once a Chanel handbag or bull terrier would have done, the fashionable woman now holds a smiling child.
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Conservation propaganda has made fashionable women genuinely ashamed to be seen wearing a leopard-skin coat.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a fashionable/stylish/sloppy etc dresser
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a style of painting that was fashionable in the 1930s
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He runs a very fashionable restaurant in Sag Harbor.
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I've never been very fashionable . I'd rather wear what feels comfortable.
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Kate spent her summers in Cape Cod working in a fashionable resort.
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The fleece tops for children come in fashionable colors.
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The store sells fashionable clothes at prices you can afford.
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They recently opened a cafe on Manhattan's fashionable East Side.
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This is the latest style of hat worn by fashionable women in Milan.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But for most women, it was fashionable to refrain from eating long before it became fashionable to be slender.
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It is fashionable at present to suggest that the school curriculum should be relevant.
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No doubt this would be considered fashionable today but the thought of going out like that mortified me.
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Rather, he was a young and fashionable man who was able to capture the spirit of the dawning era.
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The finale shifts styles in a way now familiar and fashionable through composers such as Schnittke.