fashion plate
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fashion plate
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Initially produced as engravings.
noun fashion plates · fashion-plate
- 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.
- A person who dresses in especially stylish fashions. I'm no fashion plate, and don't dress to impress.
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title = {fashion plate},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
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