ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

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 &c (taste) 850 [Lat.]; the beautiful people, the fashion set, upper ten
thousand &c (nobility) 875; elite &c (distinction) 873; smart set; the four hundred [U.S.];
in crowd.
V. be fashionable &c adj., be the rage &c n.; have a run, pass current.
follow the fashion, conform to the fashion, fall in with the fashion, follow the trend,
follow the crowd &c n.; go with the stream &c (conform) 82; savoir vivre [Fr.], savoir
faire [Fr.]; 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 &c n.; a la mode, comme il faut [Fr.]; admitted in society,
admissible in society &c n.; presentable; conventional &c (customary) 613; genteel; wellbred,
well mannered, well behaved, well spoken; gentlemanlike † , gentlemanly; ladylike;
civil, polite &c (courteous) 894.
polished, refined, thoroughbred, courtly; distingue [Fr.]; unembarrassed, degage
[Fr.]; janty † , jaunty; dashing, fast.
modish, stylish, chic, trendy, recherche; newfangled &c (unfamiliar) 83; all the rage,
all the go † ; with it, in, faddish.
in court, in full dress, in evening dress; en grande tenue [Fr.] &c (ornament) 847.
Adv. fashionably &c adj.; for fashion's sake.
Phr. a la francaise, a la parisienne; a l' anglaise [Fr.], a l' americaine [Fr.]; autre temps
autre mauers [Fr.]; chaque pays a sa guise [Fr.].
853. Ridiculousness -- N. ridiculousness &c adj.; comicality, oddity &c adj.;
extravagance, drollery.
farce, comedy; burlesque &c (ridicule) 856; buffoonery &c (fun) 840; frippery;
doggerel verses; absurdity &c 497; bombast &c (unmeaning) 517; anticlimax, bathos;
eccentricity, monstrosity &c (unconformity) 83; laughingstock &c 857.
V. be ridiculous &c adj.; pass from the sublime to the ridiculous; make one laugh; play
the fool, make a fool of oneself, commit an absurdity.
Adj. ridiculous, ludicrous; comical; droll, funny, laughable, pour rire, grotesque, farcical,
odd; whimsical, whimsical as a dancing bear; fanciful, fantastic, queer, rum, quizzical,
quaint, bizarre; screaming; eccentric &c (unconformable) 83; strange, outlandish, out of
the way, baroque, weird; awkward &c (ugly) 846.
extravagant, outre, monstrous, preposterous, bombastic, inflated, stilted, burlesque,
mock heroic.
drollish; seriocomic, tragicomic; gimcrack, contemptible &c (unimportant) 643;
doggerel; ironical &c (derisive) 856; risible.
Phr. risum teneatis amici [Lat.] [Horace]; rideret Heraclitus; du sublime au ridicule il n'y
a qu'un pas [Lat.] [Napoleon].
854. Fop -- N. fop, fine gentleman; swell; dandy, dandiprat † ; exquisite, coxcomb, beau,
macaroni, blade, blood, buck, man about town, fast man; fribble, milliner † ; Jemmy
Jessamy † , carpet knight; masher, dude.
fine lady, coquette; flirt, vamp.