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English
Etymology
un- + fashionable
Adjective
unfashionable (comparative more unfashionable, superlative most unfashionable)
- Not fashionable.
1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 2, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, , published 1853, →OCLC:The fashionable intelligence says so for the comfort of the Parisians, and it knows all fashionable things. To know things otherwise were to be unfashionable.
- (obsolete) That cannot be fashioned; unshapely, distorted.
c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :I, that am rudely stamp'd, and want love's majesty
To strut before a wanton ambling nymph;
I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion,
Cheated of feature by dissembling nature,
Deformed, unfinish'd, sent before my time
Into this breathing world, scarce half made up,
And that so lamely and unfashionable
That dogs bark at me as I halt by them ...
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