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prefashionable

prefashionable adjective: prior to becoming fashionable.

Adjective

prefashionable (not comparable)

  1. Prior to becoming fashionable.
    • Mr. Jacobs once described another of these films, “Blonde Cobra” (1959-63), edited from footage shot by Bob Fleischner, as a “look in on an exploding life, on a man of imagination suffering prefashionable Lower East Side deprivation and consumed with American 1950s, ’40s, ’30s disgust.”2009 October 11, Manohla Dargis, “Deconstructing Cinema in Order to Reveal It”, in New York Times

Origin of prefashionable

From pre- + fashionable.

Questions about prefashionable

What does prefashionable mean?
Prefashionable means prior to becoming fashionable.
What part of speech is prefashionable?
Prefashionable is an adjective.

Words near prefashionable in the dictionary

  1. prefamine
  2. prefamous
  3. prefascist
  4. prefascists
  5. prefashion
  6. prefashionable
  7. prefashioned
  8. prefashioning
  9. prefashions
  10. prefasting
  11. prefatial

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