out of fashion

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out of fashion

  1. Unfashionable, not in fashion.
    • 1952 February, “New Type of Signal Bridge Near Sunderland”, in Railway Magazine, page 88:
      The old very high signals, for instance, affording a sky background at a considerable distance, and at times provided with co-acting arms lower down, are out of fashion now, although many still remain.
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
      The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years.

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