Noun

(medicine) Material applied to a wound for protection or therapy.

* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=

, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad , chapter=5 citation , passage=She removed Stranleigh’s coat with a dexterity that aroused his imagination. The elder woman returned with dressings and a sponge, which she placed on a chair.}}

A sauce, especially a cold one for salads.

Something added to the soil as a fertilizer etc.

The activity of getting dressed.

* 2004 , Kathryn Banks, ?Joseph Harris, Exposure: Revealing Bodies, Unveiling Representations (page 182)

Considered thus, the performance is a translation into images of bodies on display, as is well demonstrated by Monsieur Jourdain's repeated dressings and undressings.

(obsolete) Dress; raiment; especially, ornamental habiliment or attire.

(Ben Jonson)

The stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc.; forcemeat.

Gum, starch, etc., used in stiffening or finishing silk, linen, and other fabrics.

An ornamental finish, such as a moulding around doors, windows, or on a ceiling.

(dated) Castigation; scolding; dressing down.

Noun

(wikipedia fashion)

(countable) A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years.}}

(uncountable) Popular trends.

* John Locke

the innocent diversions in fashion

* H. Spencer

As now existing, fashion is a form of social regulation analogous to constitutional government as a form of political regulation.

(countable) A style or manner in which something is done.

* 1918 , Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter V

When it had advanced from the wood, it hopped much after the fashion of a kangaroo, using its hind feet and tail to propel it, and when it stood erect, it sat upon its tail.

* {{quote-news

, year=2011 , date=October 1 , author=Phil Dawkes , title=Sunderland 2 - 2 West Brom , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=It shell-shocked the home crowd, who quickly demanded a response, which came midway through the half and in emphatic fashion .}}

The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; workmanship; execution.

the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.

* Bible, Luke ix. 29

The fashion of his countenance was altered.

* Shakespeare

I do not like the fashion of your garments.

(dated) Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding.

men of fashion