The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years.

1874-1896, Herbert Spencer, Principles of Sociology Part IV
As now existing, fashion is a form of social regulation analogous to constitutional government as a form of political regulation.

It shell-shocked the home crowd, who quickly demanded a response, which came midway through the half and in emphatic fashion.

the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.

1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IX
I have three gourds which I fill with water and take back to my cave against the long nights. I have fashioned a spear and a bow and arrow, that I may conserve my ammunition, which is running low.

[…] a device fashioned by arguments against that kind of prey.

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