newfashion

present singular third person newfashions · participle present newfashioning · participle past newfashioned · past newfashioned · alternative new-fashion

1. To modernise; remodel in the latest style.

   Not a few were given to him by the old romancers; but these he has new-fashioned to his needs.

   1881, John Addington Symonds, Renaissance in Italy

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   From the duke they would have taken his birthright; the church and religion they would have cast in a new mould; the bishops and clerks they would have new-fashioned, if not utterly laid aside; banished many of the nobles; …

   1744, William Oldys, Edward Harley Oxford (Earl of), The Harleian miscellany

   He used to observe that poets and orators abound most in the corruptest times, and we have been fining and newfashioning the English tongue, whilst English manners are become wild.

   1867, William Hylton Dyer Longstaffe, Memoirs of the life of Mr. Ambrose Barnes

   Since the period of original composition, I have new-fashioned this introductory stanza after comparing it with Mr. Sotheby, to whom I am accordingly indebted for much of its present structure.

   1977, John Boening, The Reception of classical German literature in England

comparative more newfashion · superlative most newfashion · alternative new-fashion

1. Recently come into fashion; new-fashioned.

   An entirely newfashion concept.

   1964, Men's wear, volume 149

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   Killerwhale House already knows what to do in these 'newfashion' times.

   1957, Margaret Elizabeth Bell, Daughter of Wolf House

   The dresses will be narrower at the hips, midriffs bare and the classic skirt will take on newfashion impetus.

   1975, America's textiles: Reporter/bulletin edition: Volume 4