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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,
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Lat. factio, making, facere, to do or make)
  , the
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action of making, hence the shape or form which anything takes in the
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process of making . It is thus used in the sense of the
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pattern, kind, sort, manner or mode in which a thing is done . It is particularly used of the
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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
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term is modes (see COSTUME) .

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