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- noun Plural form of
fashionable .
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Examples
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"What do you call the fashionables?" inquired Bob.
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We dress-wearers can hover like tasteful vultures near our favorite thrift stores, waiting for the "fashionables" to drop off their dresses!
Well, I Guess It's Time To Wrap This Up, Then - A Dress A Day 2008
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The list of "fashionables" he handed to the reporters resembled an extract from the pages of Messrs. Burke and Debrett.
The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert Horace Wyndham
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Some of the "fashionables" appear very unexpectedly before the world.
Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City James Dabney McCabe 1862
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Some of the "fashionables" appear very suddenly before the world.
The Secrets of the Great City James Dabney McCabe 1862
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"fashionables" and smart people who were actually in the house to attend the servants 'ball, most of us only staying long enough to set the thing going with spirit, though I believe some of the young dandies who found partners to their liking remained to the end, and
Kate Coventry An Autobiography G. J. Whyte-Melville
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"Now," thought I, as I placed myself before my glass, "shall I gently please, or sublimely astonish the 'fashionables' of Cheltenham?
Pelham — Volume 03 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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"Now," thought I, as I placed myself before my glass, "shall I gently please, or sublimely astonish the 'fashionables' of Cheltenham?
Pelham — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Smoking in the streets, or in a theatre, is only practised by shop-boys, pseudo-fashionables — and the “swell Mob.”
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The triumph is immense, for up to the last hour the difficulties, the opposition, and the ill-natured attempts to annoy and frighten, of a certain set of fashionables and Protectionists, were immense; but Albert's temper, patience, firmness, and energy surmounted all, and the feeeling is universal.
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