Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An obsequious follower of the modes and fashions.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare An obsequious follower of the modes and fashions.

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  • noun archaic An obsequious follower of fashion.

Etymologies

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fashion +‎ -ist

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Examples

  • Are you like a fashionist -- whatever the male version of fasionista would be?

    CNN Transcript Jun 28, 2006 2006

  • I fear it was in part the influence of such pictures on living society, which made the style of manners, of which we have so many pictures, as for example, in the following account of the English fashionist.

    Uncollected Prose 2006

  • If the fashionist have not this quality, he is nothing.

    XII. Essays. Manners. 1844 1909

  • What is this child training for, but simply to be a fop, or fashionist, or fool?

    Christian Nurture. 1802-1876 1876

  • If the fashionist have not this quality, he is nothing.

    Essays: Second Series (1844) 1844

  • If the fashionist have not this quality, he is nothing.

    Essays — Second Series Ralph Waldo Emerson 1842

  • If the fashionist have not this quality, he is nothing.

    Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson 1842

  • I fear it was in part the influence of such pictures on living society, which made the style of manners, of which we have so many pictures, as for example, in the following account of the English fashionist.

    Uncollected Prose 1832

  • Blogger Chris Turner who writes Sympatico.ca's daily fashion blog fashionist.ca said he will be checking out Huffington Post Canada regularly.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • Blogger Chris Turner who writes Sympatico.ca's daily fashion blog fashionist.ca said he will be checking out Huffington Post Canada regularly.

    The Seattle Times 2011

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