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(countable) A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons.
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* John Locke
* H. Spencer
(countable) A style or manner in which something is done.
* 1918 , Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter V
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The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; workmanship; execution.
* Bible, Luke ix. 29
* Shakespeare
(dated) Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding.
To make, build or construct.
* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IX
* 2005 , :
(dated) To make in a standard manner; to work.
* John Locke
(dated) To fit, adapt, or accommodate to .
* Spenser
(obsolete) To forge or counterfeit.
To chop away at; to whittle down; to mow down.
* Shakespeare
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 6
To shape; to form.
* Bible, Is. li. 1
* Alexander Pope
(US) To act according to, to conform to; usually construed with (to).
* 1905 , Albert Osborn, : A Biography ,
* 1998 , and Lawrence Davidson, Pulp Culture: The Art of Fiction Magazines , Collectors Press, Inc., ISBN 1-888054-12-3, page 103,
* 2008 , , Troublemaker: A Personal History of School Reform Since Sputnik , Princeton University Press, ISBN 0-691-12990-8, page 28,
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*:King recovered the rights on the condition that he'd stop publicly disparaging Kubrick's version. "For a long time I hewed that line," he told CBS News in June. "And then Mr. Kubrick died. So now I figured, what the hell. I've gone back to saying mean things about it."
(obsolete) hue; colour
(obsolete) shape; form
Destruction by cutting down.
* Spenser
Fashion is a synonym of hew.
As a noun fashion
is (countable) a current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons.As a verb fashion
is to make, build or construct.As a proper noun hew is
.fashion
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Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(wikipedia fashion)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.}}
- the innocent diversions in fashion
- As now existing, fashion is a form of social regulation analogous to constitutional government as a form of political regulation.
- 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.
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- the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.
- The fashion of his countenance was altered.
- I do not like the fashion of your garments.
- men of fashion
Derived terms
* fashionable * fashionably * fashion collection * fashion designer * fashionless * fashion model * fashion plate * fashion police * fashion show * fashion victim * fashion week * in fashion * like it's going out of fashionVerb
(en verb)- I have three gourds which I fill with water and take back to my cave against the long nights. I have fashioned a spear and a bow and arrow, that I may conserve my ammunition, which is running low.
- a device fashioned by arguments against that kind of prey.
- Fashioned plate sells for more than its weight.
- Laws ought to be fashioned to the manners and conditions of the people.
- (Shakespeare)
Derived terms
* refashionExternal links
* *hew
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) hewen, from (etyl) . See also (l).Verb
- Hew them to pieces; hack their bones asunder.
- Among other things he found a sharp hunting knife, on the keen blade of which he immediately proceeded to cut his finger. Undaunted he continued his experiments, finding that he could hack and hew splinters of wood from the table and chairs with this new toy.
- to hew out a sepulchre
- Look unto the rock whence ye are hewn .
- rather polishing old works than hewing out new
]Jennings & Graham, [http://books.google.com/books?id=I3UEAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA428&dq=hewed page 428,
- Few men measured up to his standard of righteousness; he hewed to the line.
- Inside the stories usually hewed to a consistent formula: no matter how outlandish and weird the circumstances, in the end everything had to have a natural, if not plausible, ending—frequently, though not always, involving a mad scientist.
- Faculty members and students alike were buzzing with the fashionable nostrums that dominated U.S. education discourse in the late sixties,
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Derived terms
* hewer * rough-hewEtymology 2
Noun
(en noun)- (Chaucer)
- (Spenser)
- Of whom he makes such havoc and such hew .