FASHION (adapted from Fr. facon, agon,

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• LAT

Lat. factio, making, facere, to do or make)  , the action of making, hence the shape or form which anything takes in the process of making . It is thus used in the sense of the pattern, kind, sort, manner or mode in which a thing is done . It is particularly used of the common or customary way in which a thing is done, and so is applied to the manner or custom prevalent at or characteristic of a particular period, especially of the manner of dress, &c., current at a particular period in any rank of society, for which the French term is modes (see COSTUME) .