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fashionmongering

fashionmongering noun: slavish following of the latest fashions.

Noun

fashionmongering (uncountable)

  1. (derogatory) Slavish following of the latest fashions.
    • The following complaint, borrowed from the same writer, while it establishes the early fashionmongering of the French, will appear very singular to our modish contemporaries.1823, Leigh Hunt, The Literary Examiner

Adjective

fashionmongering (not comparable)

  1. (derogatory) Slavishly following the latest fashions.

Questions about fashionmongering

What does fashionmongering mean?
Fashionmongering means slavish following of the latest fashions.
What part of speech is fashionmongering?
Fashionmongering can be a noun or an adjective.

Words near fashionmongering in the dictionary

  1. fashionizes
  2. fashionizing
  3. fashionless
  4. fashionlessness
  5. fashionmonger
  6. fashionmongering
  7. fashionmongers
  8. fashions
  9. fashionwear
  10. fashionwise
  11. fashiony

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