Read full poem →revived these comedies, which completely opened men's eyes; and it is now
become as fashionable to admire as it had been to decry them.
Dictionary Entry
A fashionable person; a fop
Origin
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Common Phrases
Poetry examples for “fashionable”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →** speaks not French.” This extraordinary romance, so
famous for its wit, so fashionable in the court of Queen
Jilizabeth, and which is said to have introduced so
Read full poem →Dear child, I only did to you what the sparrow
did to you; I am old when it is fashionable to be
young; I cry when it is fashionable to laugh.
Read full poem →Might come back alter’d, having caught
The foolish, fashionable air
Of knowing all, and feeling nought.
Read full poem →Court, the Woodwards, Brookes, and others, or to his maturer and more
fashionable companions in the quest of favour and employment at Court,
Wotton, and Goodyere, and Lord Herbert of Cherbury. To the other
Read full poem →Were sorted well, with lumps of amber laid between;
Rich fashionable robes her person deck;
Pendents her ears, and pearls adorn her neck;
Read full poem →been supposed to represent Lauderdale, whose age and uncouth figure
rendered ridiculous his ungainly affectation of fashionable vices. Mr
Malone intimates a suspicion, that Shaftesbury was the person levelled
Read full poem →Though less than yours in past, must o'ertop yours:
For time is like a fashionable host,
That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand;
Read full poem →My politics as yet are all to educate:
Apostasy's so fashionable, too,
To keep _one_ creed's a task grown quite Herculean;
Read full poem →Miss Helen Slingsby was my maiden aunt,
And lived in a small house near a fashionable square
Cared for by servants to the number of four.
