new-fashioned
Americanadjective
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lately come into fashion; made in a new style, fashion, etc.
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up-to-date; modern; progressive.
adjective
Etymology
Origin of new-fashioned
First recorded in 1605–15
Example Sentences
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Yet the singer has built his growing audience the new-fashioned way.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 20, 2025
“A fresh, new-fashioned take on the familiar,” Van Noten called it, turning his focus to construction and volume – shirts were elongated into dress length and trousers were wide and puddled on the floor.
From The Guardian • Jan. 28, 2021
If everything about that track—its disorienting beauty, its churchiness, its strange dolphin utopia—felt like blessed redemption through vocal deconstruction, DS2 is new-fashioned devil’s music, all existential dread and thrill.
From Slate • Dec. 23, 2015
“It is, of course, the oldest track in America, and its ways are old-fashioned ways. After eleven months of new-fashioned ways, it is as restful as old slippers, as quiet as real joy.”
From New York Times • Jul. 17, 2014
Gawaine exploded like one of the new-fashioned cannons.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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