fashion plate
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.36 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person who dresses in especially stylish fashions.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "He was a pure man of letters, untimely born in a world that had no need of letters; […] he had abandoned his real calling, and taken a sub-editorial job on a women's weekly, where fashion-plates and paper patterns alternated with New England love-stories and advertisements of temperance drinks."
- "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."
- "Today, in an age when the promotion of fashion is dominated by social media, video, and photography, fashion plates are nearly forgotten—relics of history consulted by few aside from professional costume designers and scholars of history."
- "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. […]”"