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FASHION (adapted from Fr. facon, agon...

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 192 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FASHION (adapted from Fr. facon, agon, See also:Lat. factio, making, facere, to do or make)  , the See also:action of making, hence the shape or See also:form which anything takes in the See also:process of making . It is thus used in the sense of the See also:pattern, See also:kind, sort, manner or mode in which a thing is done . It is particularly used of the See also:common or customary way in which a thing is done, and so is applied to the manner or See also:custom prevalent at or characteristic of a particular See also:period, especially of the manner of See also:dress, &c., current at a particular period in any See also:rank of society, for which the See also:French See also:term is modes (see See also:COSTUME) .

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