Word Meanings - FASHIONIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An obsequious follower of the modes and fashions. Fuller.

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• MODESTLY
  In a modest manner.
• FULLER
  One whose occupation is to full cloth. Fuller's earth, a variety of clay, used in scouring and cleansing cloth, to imbibe grease. -- Fuller's herb , the soapwort , formerly used to remove stains from cloth. -- Fuller's thistle or weed
• MODESTY
  1. The quality or state of being modest; that lowly temper which accompanies a moderate estimate of one's own worth and importance; absence of self-assertion, arrogance, and presumption; humility respecting one's own merit. 2. Natural delicacy
• OBSEQUIOUSLY
  1. In an obsequious manner; compliantly; fawningly. Dryden. 2. In a manner appropriate to obsequies. Whilst I a while obsequiously lament The untimely fall of virtuous Lancaster. Shak.
• OBSEQUIOUSNESS
  The quality or state of being obsequious. South.
• FULLERY
  The place or the works where the fulling of cloth is carried on.
• MODEST
  1. Restraining within due limits of propriety; not forward, bold, boastful, or presumptious; rather retiring than pushing one's self forward; not obstructive; as, a modest youth; a modest man. 2. Observing the proprieties of the sex; not unwomanly
• OBSEQUIOUS
  Of or pertaining to obsequies; funereal. "To do obsequious sorrow." Shak. Syn. -- Compliant; obedient; servile. See Yielding. (more info) obsequi, fr. obsequi: cf. F. obséquieux, See Obsequent, and cf. 1. Promptly obedient, or submissive, to
• FOLLOWER
  1. One who follows; a pursuer; an attendant; a disciple; a dependent associate; a retainer. 2. A sweetheart; a beau. A. Trollope. The removable flange, or cover, of a piston. See Illust. of Piston. A gland. See Illust. of Stuffing box.
• CHURCH MODES
  The modes or scales used in ancient church music. See Gregorian.
• IMMODESTLY
  In an immodest manner.
• IMMODESTY
  Want of modesty, delicacy, or decent reserve; indecency. "A piece of immodesty." Pope.
• IMMODEST
  1. Not limited to due bounds; immoderate. 2. Not modest; wanting in the reserve or restraint which decorum and decency require; indecent; indelicate; obscene; lewd; as, immodest persons, behavior, words, pictures, etc. Immodest deeds you hinder
• OVERMODEST
  Modest to excess; bashful. -- O"ver*mod"est*ly, adv.