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.
Phrases and idioms:
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.
Derivatives:
fashioner n.
Etymology: ME f. AF fasun, OF fa{ccedil}on, f. L factio -onis f. facere fact- do, make