fashion plate
nounEtymology
Initially produced as engravings.
Definitions
A picture, usually a full-page advertisement, showing the latest fashion in clothing.
- By turning the skirt and adding a ruffle of rhyme you would hardly recognize it as vers de societe with neatly shod feet and a fashion-plate illustration.
- Nat Hicks's Tailor Shop, on a side street off Main. A one-story building. A fashion-plate showing human pitchforks in garments which looked as hard as steel plate.
A person who dresses in especially stylish fashions.
- I'm no fashion plate, and don't dress to impress.
- “I told you they dressed me up, but I didn’t tell you that they powdered and squeezed and frizzled, and made me look like a fashion-plate. […]”
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA