N. fashion, style, ton, bon ton|, society, good society, polite society,
monde,
drawing-room, civilized life, civilization, town,
beau monde, high life, court, world, fashionable world, gay world, vanity fair, show, manners, breeding, air,
demeanor, savoir faire,
gentlemanliness,
gentility,
decorum, propriety, biensance, conventions of society, mrs. grundy,
punctilio, form,
formality,
etiquette, point of etiquette, dress, custom, mode,
vogue, go,
rage, prevailing taste,
fad,
trend, bandwagon,
furore, thing, in thing,
craze,
chic, last word, man of fashion, woman of fashion, man of the world, woman of the world, height of fashion, pink of fashion, star of fashion, glass of fashion, leader of fashion, arbiter elegantiarum, the beautiful people, the fashion set, upper ten thousand,
elite, smart set, the four hundred, in crowd
V. be fashionable, be the rage, have a run, pass current, follow the fashion, conform to the fashion, fall in with the fashion, follow the trend, follow the crowd, go with the stream, savoir vivre, savoir faire, keep up appearances, behave oneself, set the fashion, bring in the fashion, give a tone to society, cut a figure in society, keep one's carriage
Adj. fashionable, in fashion, a la mode, comme il faut, admitted in society, admissible in society, presentable,
conventional,
genteel,
well-bred, well mannered, well behaved, well spoken,
gentlemanlike, gentlemanly,
ladylike, civil,
polite, polished, refined,
thoroughbred, courtly, distingue,
unembarrassed, degage,
janty,
jaunty,
dashing, fast,
modish,
stylish,
chic, trendy,
recherche,
newfangled, all the rage, all the go|, with it, in, faddish, in court, in full dress, in evening dress, en grande tenue
Phr. a la francaise, a la parisienne, a l' anglaise, a l' americaine, autre temps autre mauers, chaque pays a sa guise
N. affectation, affectedness, acting a part, pretense, (ostentation) 882,
boasting,
charlatanism,
quackery, shallow profundity, pretension, airs,
pedantry,
purism,
precisianism,
euphuism,
teratology,
mannerism, simagree,
grimace,
conceit,
foppery,
dandyism, man millinery,
coxcombry,
puppyism, stiffness,
formality,
buckram,
prudery,
demureness,
coquetry, mock modesty, minauderie,
sentimentalism, mauvais honte, false shame,
affector, performer,
actor,
pedant,
pedagogue,
doctrinaire,
purist,
euphuist,
mannerist, grimacier, lump of affectation, precieuse ridicule, bas bleu, blue stocking,
poetaster,
prig,
charlatan, petit maitre,
flatterer,
coquette,
prude,
puritan V. affect, act a part, put on, give oneself airs,
boast,
coquet,
simper,
mince,
attitudinize,
pose, flirt a fan, overact,
overdo Adj. affected, full of affectation,
pretentious,
pedantic,
stilted, stagy,
theatrical, big-sounding,
ad captandum,
canting,
insincere, not natural, unnatural,
self-conscious, maniere, artificial, overwrought, overdone, overacted,
euphuist, stiff, starch, formal,
prim,
smug,
demure, tire a quatre epingles,
quakerish,
puritanical,
prudish,
pragmatical,
priggish,
conceited,
coxcomical,
foppish,
dandified,
finical,
finikin,
mincing,
simpering,
namby-pamby,
sentimental Phr. "conceit in weakest bodies strongest works"
N. ostentation, display, show,
flourish,
parade, etalage,
pomp,
array, state,
solemnity,
dash,
splash,
splurge,
glitter,
strut,
pomposity, pretense, pretensions, showing off,
fuss,
magnificence,
splendor, coup d'oeil, grand doings, coup de theatre, stage effect, stage trick,
claptrap, mise en scene, tour de force,
chic, demonstration, flying colors,
tomfoolery, flourish of trumpets,
pageant,
pageantry,
spectacle, exhibition, exposition,
procession, turn out, set out, grand function, fte,
gala, field day, review, march past,
promenade, insubstantial pageant, dress, court dress, full dress, evening dress, ball dress, fancy dress,
tailoring,
millinery, man millinery,
frippery,
foppery,
equipage, ceremony,
ceremonial, ritual, form,
formality,
etiquette,
puncto,
punctilio,
punctiliousness, starched stateliness,
stateliness,
mummery, solemn mockery, mouth honor,
attitudinarian,
fop V. be ostentatious, come forward, put oneself forward, attract attention, star it, cut a figure, make a dash, make a splash, make a splurge, cut a dash, cut a splash, cut a splurge, figure, figure away, make a show, make a display,
glitter, show off, show off one's paces,
parade, march past, display, exhibit, put forward, hold up, trot out, hand out,
sport,
brandish, blazon forth,
dangle, dangle before the eyes, cry up, proner,
flaunt,
emblazon,
prink, set off, mount, have framed and glazed, put a good face upon, put a smiling face upon, clean the outside of the platter
Adj. ostentatious,
showy,
dashing,
pretentious,
janty,
jaunty, grand,
pompous,
palatial,
high-sounding,
turgid,
gairish,
garish,
gaudy, gaudy as a peacock, gaudy as a butterfly, gaudy as a tulip,
flaunting,
flashing, flaming,
glittering, gay, splendid, magnificent,
sumptuous,
theatrical, dramatic,
spectacular,
ceremonial, ritual, solemn, stately,
majestic, formal, stiff,
ceremonious,
punctilious, starched, dressed to kill, dressed to the nines, decjed out, all decked out, en granite tenue, in best bib and tucker, in sunday best, endimanch,
chic Adv. with flourish of trumpet, with beat of drum, with flying colors, ad captandum vulgus
Phr. honores mutant mores
N. legality,
legitimacy, legitimateness, # legislature, law, code, corpus juris, constitution,
pandect, charter,
enactment, statute, rule, canon,
ordinance, institution, regulation, bylaw, byelaw, decree,
ordonnance, standing order,
plebiscite, legal process, form, formula,
formality,
rite, arm of the law,
habeas corpus,
fieri facias, jurisprudence,
nomology, legislation,
codification,
equity,
common law,
lex, lex nonscripta,
law of nations, droit des gens,
international law, jus gentium, jus civile,
civil law,
canon law, crown law,
criminal law, statute law,
ecclesiastical law, administrative law, lex mercatoria,
constitutionalism,
constitutionality, justice, court,
tribunal, judge,
lawyer,
attorney, legal counsel
Adj. legal, legitimate, according to law,
vested, constitutional, chartered,
legalized, lawful, statutable,
statutory,
legislatorial, legislative, regulatory, regulated
Adv. legally, in the eye of the law,
de jure Phr. ignorantia legis neminem excusat, "where law ends tyranny begins"
