new-fashioned

See also: newfashioned

English

Adjective

new-fashioned (comparative more new-fashioned or newer-fashioned, superlative most new-fashioned or newest-fashioned)

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

     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.

   • 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:

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

   • 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:

     [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.

   • 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:

     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.

Antonyms

• old-fashioned

Hypernyms

• fashioned