new-fashioned

comparative more new-fashioned · comparative newer-fashioned · superlative most new-fashioned · superlative newest-fashioned

1. Newly made.
2. Up-to-date, fashionable or avant-garde.

   I don’t think the Dorrance place is as handsome as ours, after all, if it is newer-fashioned.

   1867 December, “Light and Shadow”, in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, volume XXXVI, number CCXI, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], published 1868, page 84, column 2

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   He seemed very sentimental, very full of some Feelings or other, & very much addicted to all the newest-fashioned hard words—had not a very clear Brain she presumed, & talked a good deal by rote.

   Sanditon

   1817 (date written), Jane Austen, chapter 7, in R[aymond] W[ilson] Chambers, editor, Fragment of a Novel Written by Jane Austen, January–March 1817 […] [Sanditon], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, published 1925, →OCLC, page 94

   [Anthony] Trollope cannot be too much read to-day. He is not old-fashioned. On the contrary, he is far newer-fashioned than the bulk of novelists to-day. Trollope writes of life, of live people, real things. He convinces—the word is a perfectly good expressive word despite protests against it of late—people who know about life and the world and men and women of it; on the contrary, the six-shilling novelist of to-day usually half convinces people who do not know much about these things.

   1913 May 17, “Shorter Notices”, in The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art, volume 115, number 3,003, London, page 623, columns 1–2

   Duck with cherry sauce, named after a type of cherry grown near Paris. Not much newer-fashioned than duck with orange sauce, although both are quite tasty.

   2001, David d’Aprix, The Fearless International Foodie Conquers the Cuisine of France, Italy, Spain, Latin America, New York, N.Y.: Living Language, →ISBN, page 24