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
Tharp’s lifts are musical, and at the same time surprising — more like weight-exchanging experiments than old-fashioned ballroom tricks, or new-fashioned gender deconstructions.
From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2022
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
However, the new-fashioned way is free and open source.
From The Guardian • Dec. 16, 2012
He would explain to Arthur that he had pleaded the wound so as to come unexpectedly, in disguise, because that was one of the new-fashioned things to do.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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