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fashion plate

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fashion plate
n.
1. A person who consistently wears the latest fashions.
2. An illustration of current styles in dress.
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Noun1.fashion platefashion plate - a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance
coxcomb, cockscomb - a conceited dandy who is overly impressed by his own accomplishments
macaroni - a British dandy in the 18th century who affected Continental mannerisms; "Yankee Doodle stuck a feather in his cap and called it macaroni"
adult male, man - an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman); "there were two women and six men on the bus"
2.fashion plate - a plate illustrating the latest fashion in dress
plate - a full-page illustration (usually on slick paper)

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In their stiff, crackling dresses of black silk, with jet-bespangled jackets, and little rows of cylindrical grey curls drooping down on either side of their black bonnets, they looked like two old fashion plates which had wandered off into the wrong decade.
 
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