Online dictionaryOnline dictionary
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Fashion plate   /fˈæʃən pleɪt/   Listen
Fashion plate

noun
1.
A man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance.  Synonyms: beau, clotheshorse, dandy, dude, fop, gallant, sheik, swell.
2.
A plate illustrating the latest fashion in dress.





WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |
Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar




"Fashion plate" Quotes from Famous Books



... young lady, dressed with the elegance of a milliner's dummy, and carrying two great card-board dress-boxes, and a young man dressed like a fashion plate, who also carries ...
— L'Aiglon • Edmond Rostand
... little bookcase whose shelves were filled with her patterns—in her dressmaking she never used a fashion plate. ...
— Christmas - A Story • Zona Gale
... He knows, does he? Kobu has himself going to another thought. Isn't that what Zura says? Page Hanaford is no more the man wanted for borrowing that bank's money than I am a fashion plate wanted in Paris." Her words were light, but ...
— The House of the Misty Star - A Romance of Youth and Hope and Love in Old Japan • Fannie Caldwell Macaulay


Words linked to "Fashion plate" :   cockscomb, man, macaroni, George Bryan Brummell, plate, coxcomb, Beau Brummell, Brummell, adult male


Copyright © 2024 Dictionary One.com