fashionables
- 1Plural of fashionable.
The city's fashionables flocked to the gallery opening in their finest coats.
Among the fashionables at the racetrack, wide-brimmed hats were the talk of the afternoon.
Note
An adjective that has crossed over into a noun, and the -s proves it: English adjectives never take a plural ending, so fashionables can only mean people. Each one is a fashionable person, and the singular can shade into fop, someone whose care for dress invites a smile. Drop the -s and write the fashionable set or the fashionable crowd, and the word is an adjective again.
fashionables is a form of fashionable
fashionable, noun: A person preoccupied with following current trends in dress and manners; a fop. Full entry
- Forms
- fashionablefashionables plural
- Spelling
- fashionable → fashionables: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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