Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Recently come into fashion; new-fashioned; novel.
- To modernize; remodel in the latest style.
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Examples
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It was of Wilhelm then, and others of his kind, that I thought as I stood in the end of the new-fashion trench, looking at the rabbit trap.
Kings, Queens and Pawns An American Woman at the Front Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917
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The two would not combine: the former he had, as it were, himself fashioned; the latter seemed as if it would almost new-fashion him.
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On the 4th of March he "saw several people trying a new-fashion gun, brought by my Lord Peterborough this morning, to shoot off often, one after another, without trouble or danger."
How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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There were several people by trying a new-fashion gun
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668
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There were several people by trying a new-fashion gun
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 27: March 1663-64 Samuel Pepys 1668
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Again at the office in the afternoon to despatch letters and so home, and with my wife, by coach, to the New Exchange, to buy her some things; where we saw some new-fashion pettycoats of sarcenett, with a black broad lace printed round the bottom and before, very handsome, and my wife had a mind to one of them, but we did not then buy one.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668
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Again at the office in the afternoon to despatch letters and so home, and with my wife, by coach, to the New Exchange, to buy her some things; where we saw some new-fashion pettycoats of sarcenett, with a black broad lace printed round the bottom and before, very handsome, and my wife had a mind to one of them, but we did not then buy one.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 15: March/April 1661-62 Samuel Pepys 1668
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There were several people by trying a new-fashion gun
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1664 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668
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Again at the office in the afternoon to despatch letters and so home, and with my wife, by coach, to the New Exchange, to buy her some things; where we saw some new-fashion pettycoats of sarcenett, with a black broad lace printed round the bottom and before, very handsome, and my wife had a mind to one of them, but we did not then buy one.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1662 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668
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There were several people by trying a new-fashion gun
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, March 1663/64 Pepys, Samuel 1664
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