fashion sb. (the commoner S. meanings are ‘shape, make’, ‘manner, way’, ‘prevailing custom’, ‘conventional usage’)
1.
kind, sort
Gent. V. iv. 61
“Thou friend of an ill
,”
Wint. III. ii. 105,
Per. IV. ii. 84
“gentlemen of all
f-s”
; phr. “in to,” of a kind
to Mer.V. I. ii. 23.
2.
mere form, pretence
Mer.V. IV. i.
18.
