Kilo Lingo

/ˈfæʃən/

Line drawing of fashion
Coloured illustration of fashion
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Translation

The style of clothes or hair that many people like at one time.

Word origin

From Old French facon, a way of making something, from Latin factio, from facere, to make.

Origin
Latin
Root
facere
English cognates
fact, factory

Examples

latest .

Fashion is the style of clothes that is popular right now.

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"In fashion" means popular now; "out of fashion" means no longer popular.

Paris.

The fashion industry is the business of designing and selling clothes.

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This word is part of lesson 41.