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fashionwise

fashionwise adverb: in terms of fashion.

Adverb

fashionwise (not comparable)

  1. In terms of fashion.
    • “If, during the nineteen-eighties, you wanted your clothes to indicate that you were a) in the know, fashionwise; b) a bit of an intellectual; and c) not afraid of wearing unfinished seams or jackets turned inside out, or other things that might, if not worn with sufficient élan, look like fashion...2009 June 17, Bruce Weber, “Selma Weiser, Boutique Innovator, Dies at 84”, in New York Times

Origin of fashionwise

From fashion + -wise.

Questions about fashionwise

What does fashionwise mean?
Fashionwise means in terms of fashion.
What part of speech is fashionwise?
Fashionwise is an adverb.

Words near fashionwise in the dictionary

  1. fashionmonger
  2. fashionmongering
  3. fashionmongers
  4. fashions
  5. fashionwear
  6. fashionwise
  7. fashiony
  8. fashitsho
  9. fashjacket
  10. fashjacketed
  11. fashjacketing

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