Download the app
educalingo
Search
I want people to know me for my singing. I've never been searching for a label of being a fashion plate or a top model. That's a thing that's very short-lived, and it's dealing with a superficial level of this which doesn't really appeal to me.
Joyce DiDonato

Meaning of "fashion plate" in the English dictionary

Dictionary
DICTIONARY
section

PRONUNCIATION OF FASHION PLATE

fashion plate play
facebooktwitterpinterestwhatsapp

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FASHION PLATE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Fashion plate is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES FASHION PLATE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

fashion plate

Fashion plate

A fashion plate is an illustration demonstrating the highlights of fashionable styles of clothing. Fashion plates are not depictions of specific people, but are instead generalized portraits, meant only to dictate the style of clothes that a tailor, dressmaker, or store could make or sell, or to show how different materials could be made up into clothes. Used figuratively, as is most often the case, the term is a reference to a person whose dress conforms to the latest fashions.

Definition of fashion plate in the English dictionary

The definition of fashion plate in the dictionary is an illustration of the latest fashion in dress. Other definition of fashion plate is a fashionably dressed person.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FASHION PLATE

fashion business
fashion design
fashion designer
fashion editor
fashion house
fashion icon
fashion industry
fashion magazine
fashion model
fashion parade
fashion sense
fashion shoot
fashion show
fashion victim
fashion-conscious
fashion-forward
fashionability
fashionable
fashionableness
fashionably

WORDS THAT END LIKE FASHION PLATE

a full plate
boilerplate
brass plate
chocolate
contemplate
dinner plate
engraving plate
faceplate
gold plate
gold-plate
home plate
hotplate
license plate
nameplate
on a plate
plate
silver plate
soleplate
soup plate
step up to the plate
template

Synonyms and antonyms of fashion plate in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «fashion plate» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR
online translator

TRANSLATION OF FASHION PLATE

Find out the translation of fashion plate to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of fashion plate from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «fashion plate» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

时尚版
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

figurín
570 millions of speakers

English

fashion plate
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

फैशन की थाली
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

نمط لوحة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

мода пластины
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

placa de forma
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ফ্যাশন প্লেট
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

plaque de la mode
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Plat fesyen
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Mode-Platte
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ファッションプレート
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

패션 판
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Fashion plate
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thời trang
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஃபேஷன் தட்டு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

फॅशन प्लेट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Moda tabağı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

figurino
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

płyta mody
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

мода пластини
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

placă de moda
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πλάκα μόδας
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

mode- plaat
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

fashion platta
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

fashion plate
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of fashion plate

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FASHION PLATE»

The term «fashion plate» is quite widely used and occupies the 47.683 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
0
100%
FREQUENCY
Quite widely used
78
/100
The map shown above gives the frequency of use of the term «fashion plate» in the different countries.
Principal search tendencies and common uses of fashion plate
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «fashion plate».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FASHION PLATE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «fashion plate» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «fashion plate» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about fashion plate

EXAMPLES

QUOTES WITH «FASHION PLATE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word fashion plate.
1
Joyce DiDonato
I want people to know me for my singing. I've never been searching for a label of being a fashion plate or a top model. That's a thing that's very short-lived, and it's dealing with a superficial level of this which doesn't really appeal to me.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FASHION PLATE»

Discover the use of fashion plate in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to fashion plate and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Victorian Women's Magazines: An Anthology
The fashion plate was issued as a separate part and could be detached and kept. Details of the clothes and accessories represented in the plate were provided in the main body of the magazine, together with information on how to obtain ...
Margaret Beetham, Kay Boardman, 2001
2
The Hidden Consumer: Masculinities, Fashion and City Life ...
1 Fashion plate, November 1872 page 30 2 Fashion plate, January 1873 30 3 Fashion plate, summer 1880 32 4 Fashion plate, summer 1886 35 5 Fashion plate, summer 1885 35 6 Fashion plate, July 1897 38 7 Fashion plate, summer 1892 ...
Christopher Breward, 1999
3
80 Godey's Full-Color Fashion Plates: 1838-1880
May 1841. "The coloured plate in this number is not offered as a fashion plate, but the dress is simply beautiful and very appropriate to the season. The lady appears to have been favoured with a very early copy of the May number." Plate 2.
JoAnne Olian, 2012
4
Hats: A History of Fashion in Headwear
R. Bonnington. fashionplate. photograph. Victoria greeting Prince Albert onreturn fromahunt. by Landseer. plate. 471. The Picnic. Manet. Louvre. fashionplate. a fashion plate. 473. 474. From adressorfashion plate. 475. Portrait of a Irish girl by  ...
Hilda Amphlett, 2012
5
The Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes: A ...
On October 3, 1908, Fashion Plate was entered in the nine-furlong Edgemere Handicap at Aqueduct. Fashion Plate took advantage ofhis 100-pound impost to beat two rather distinguished elders: 1907 Travers Stakes winner Frank Gill and ...
Richard Sowers, 2014
6
Role-Plays for Resolution
role: type/subject Matter Negotiator - for Fashion Plate Department Store Business Negotiation BACKGROUND: Honey Nichols is a frequent shopper of Fashion Plate Department Store. She loves shopping at Fashion Plate, and the clerks at ...
Mary Kendall Hope, 2010
7
Fashion Media: Past and Present
In his seminal book A Concise History of Costume, James Laver considers La Gallerie des modes to be a 'pioneer in the field of the fashion plate', observing that 'considerable variation in female attire is now possible' (Laver 1969: 144).
Djurdja Bartlett, Shaun Cole, Agnès Rocamora, 2013
8
Classic Chic: Music, Fashion, and Modernism
The central preoccupation of these journals, after all, was fashion, and to this end they adopted and developed the fashion plate as a primary means of communication. Through much of the eighteenth century, these illustrations, like the plates ...
Mary E. Davis, 2006
9
Theatre and Fashion: Oscar Wilde to the Suffragettes
Black and White described her as "jolie a croquer in her 1830 gowns" (29 April 1893, 524), while Florence, invoking a convention of fashion-plate prose Wilde would himself borrow for the published text of An Ideal Husband, likened her to "a  ...
Joel H. Kaplan, Sheila Stowell, 1995
10
Full-color Victorian Fashions, 1870-1893
The golden age of the fashion plate is considered to be from 1840 to 1870, when approximately 100 fashion magazines were spawned, the majority of them French. Most were weeklies that also published fiction, household hints, and ...
JoAnne Olian, 1999

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FASHION PLATE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term fashion plate is used in the context of the following news items.
1
The most unfamous Australian in Hollywood
He didn't want his leading lady to just be a fashion plate.” ACMI curator Ulanda Blair, who first discovered Kelly when working on the Hollywood ... «Herald Sun, Jul 15»
2
The Best And Worst Of Smackdown 7/9/15: Rubber Baby Bulgarian …
Why, who's this sexy new fashion plate, and what did he do with the Big Show? Pre-show Notes: – Hey folks, the shares have really fallen off ... «UPROXX, Jul 15»
3
John Daly: Making Sure the Cost of Having Children Adds Up
A baby may be a fashion plate the first six months, but then what? As the baby grows, the size of everything else — clothes, car seats, etc. «Noozhawk, Jul 15»
4
How I Live With Severe Sensitivity to the Sun
asked my husband, himself a fashion plate, when I showed off a new pair of Royal Robbins slim-fitting trousers. Even the company with the ... «Washingtonian.com, Jul 15»
5
Elegant Pippa Middleton is a vision in cream at Princess Charlotte's …
The Duchess of Cambridge, née Kate Middleton isn't the only fashion plate to come out of the Middleton family! Looking every inch the elegant ... «HELLO! Canada, Jul 15»
6
Kempner classic: Socialite Nan Kempner was the embodiment of …
Nan was New York City's fashion plate for more than 40 years, an Yves Saint Laurent muse who amassed the largest private collection of haute ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
7
The fit look: Why we wear what we wear
Runner LaMar Fue of Murphy steps up to the fashion plate with about 40 pairs of shoes that are the foundation of his color-coordinated running ... «Dallas Morning News, Jul 15»
8
Chic reads for a stylish summer
Indie actress and New York fashion plate Chloë Sevigny curated a collection of photos from her career and personal life that shows the “Kids” ... «San Francisco Chronicle, Jul 15»
9
Lavinia Warren: Half of the 19th Century's Tiniest, Richest Power …
But Lavinia Warren, a fashion plate who ordered jewels from London and wore ermine capes to the theater, went from being a school teacher ... «Atlas Obscura, Jun 15»
10
Twelve Questions: Christine Rankin
It was a little coalmining town and my mother always looked like a fashion plate. She kept very much to herself because our family were locked ... «New Zealand Herald, Jun 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Fashion plate [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/fashion-plate>. Apr 2024 ».
Download the educalingo app
en
English dictionary
Discover all that is hidden in the words on
index
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z