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fashion plates

fashion plates is the plural 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.

Questions about fashion plates

What is fashion plates the plural of?
Fashion plates is the plural of fashion plate.

Words near fashion plates in the dictionary

  1. fashion parade
  2. fashion parades
  3. fashion piece
  4. fashion pieces
  5. fashion plate
  6. fashion plates
  7. fashion police
  8. fashion sense
  9. fashion show
  10. fashion shows
  11. fashion statement

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