fashionable

fashion +‎ -able

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fashionable (comparative more fashionable, superlative most fashionable)

1. Characteristic of or influenced by a current popular trend or style.

   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

   • Shakespeare

     Time is like a fashionable host / That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand.

• styleworthy

• fashionably

fashionable (plural fashionables)

1. A fashionable person; a fop
   • 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.