noun
- the make, form, or shape of a thing
- Now Rare kind; sort
- the way in which something is made or done; manner
- the current style or mode of dress, speech, conduct, etc.
- something, esp. a garment, in the current style
- fashionable people as a group: a man of fashion
Origin:
ME fasoun < OFr faceon < L factio, a making: see faction