Translation
fashion
Word origin
From French mode, from Latin modus, 'measure, manner'. The same Latin word gives English mode, modern and modify; the clothing sense arrived with the French.
- Origin
- French
- Root
- modus
- English cognates
- mode, modern, modify
Examples
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That sort of hat is no longer in fashion.
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She always follows the new fashion.
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Every generation has its own fashion.
is fashion in the sense of what is currently done, so it takes and much as English says in fashion. Keep it apart from , which is a way of doing something with no suggestion that anyone else is copying it. is the related adjective, and moda describes a garment that is in fashion rather than one that is merely recent.
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