polite society; monde [Fr.]; drawing-room, civilized life,
civilization, town, beau monde [Fr.], high life, court; world;
fashionable world, gay world; Vanity Fair; show &c (ostentation) 822.
manners, breeding &c (politeness) 894; air, demeanor &c
(appearance) 448; savoir faire [Fr.]; gentlemanliness†, gentility,
decorum, propriety, bienséance [Fr.]; conventions of society; Mrs.
Grundy; punctilio; form, formality; etiquette, point of etiquette;
dress &c 225.
custom &c 613; mode, vogue, go; rage &c (desire) 865; prevailing
taste; fad, trend, bandwagon, furore†, thing, in thing, craze, chic,
last word.
man of fashion, woman of fashion, man of the world, woman of the
world; height of fashion, pink of fashion, star of fashion, glass of
fashion, leader of fashion; arbiter elegantiarum &c (taste) 850 [Lat.];
the beautiful people, the fashion set, upper ten thousand &c (nobility)
875; elite &c (distinction) 873; smart set; the four hundred [U.S.]; in
crowd.
V. be fashionable &c adj., be the rage &c n.; have a run, pass current.
follow the fashion, conform to the fashion, fall in with the
fashion, follow the trend, follow the crowd &c n.; go with the stream
&c (conform) 82; savoir vivre [Fr.], savoir faire [Fr.]; keep up
appearances, behave oneself.
set the fashion, bring in the fashion; give a tone to society, cut
a figure in society; keep one's carriage.
Adj. fashionable; in fashion &c n.; a la mode, comme il faut [Fr.];
admitted in society, admissible in society &c n.; presentable;
conventional &c (customary) 613; genteel; well-bred, well mannered,
well behaved, well spoken; gentlemanlike†, gentlemanly; ladylike; civil,
polite &c (courteous) 894.
polished, refined, thoroughbred, courtly; distingue [Fr.];
unembarrassed, degage [Fr.]; janty†, jaunty; dashing, fast.
modish, stylish, chic, trendy, recherche; newfangled &c
(unfamiliar) 83; all the rage, all the go†; with it, in, faddish.
in court, in full dress, in evening dress; en grande tenue [Fr.]
&c (ornament) 847.
Adv. fashionably &c adj.; for fashion's sake.
Phr. a la francaise, a la parisienne; a l' anglaise [Fr.], a l'
americaine [Fr.]; autre temps autre mauers [Fr.]; chaque pays a sa
guise [Fr.].