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fashion-plate

fashion-plate is the alternative spelling of fashion plate.

Meaning of fashion plate

Noun

fashion plate (plural fashion plates)

  1. A picture, usually a full-page advertisement, showing the latest fashion in clothing.
    • By turning the skirt and adding a ruffle of rhyme you would hardly recognize it as vers de societe with neatly shod feet and a fashion-plate illustration.1917, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Confessions of a Humorist”, in Waifs and Strays
  2. (broadly) A person who dresses in especially stylish fashions.
    • I'm no fashion plate, and don't dress to impress.

Forms of fashion-plate

pluralfashion-plates

Questions about fashion-plate

What is fashion-plate the alternative spelling of?
Fashion-plate is the alternative spelling of fashion plate.

Words near fashion-plate in the dictionary

  1. fashion'd
  2. fashion-conscious
  3. fashion-forward
  4. fashion-monger
  5. fashion-mongers
  6. fashion-plate
  7. fashion-plates
  8. fashionabilities
  9. fashionability
  10. fashionable
  11. fashionable lateness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fashion-plate (page history and authors); fashion plate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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