fashion, glass of fashion, leader of fashion; arbiter elegantiarum &c. (taste) 850[Lat]; the beautiful people, the fashion set, upper ten thousand &c. (nobility) 875; elite &c. (distinction) 873; smart set; the four hundred [U.S.]; in crowd. 
     V. be fashionable &c. adj., be the rage &c. n.; have a run, pass
current.
     follow the fashion, conform to the fashion, fall in with the fashion,
follow the trend, follow the crowd &c. n.; go with the stream &c. (conform) 82; savoir vivre[Fr], savoir faire[Fr]; keep up appearances, behave oneself.
     set the fashion, bring in the fashion; give a tone to society, cut a
figure in society; keep one’s carriage. 
     Adj. fashionable; in fashion &c. n.; a la mode, comme il faut[Fr];
admitted in society, admissible in society &c. n.; presentable; conventional &c. (customary) 613; genteel; well-bred, well mannered, well behaved, well spoken; gentlemanlike[obs3], gentlemanly; ladylike; civil, polite &c. (courteous) 894.
     polished, refined, thoroughbred, courtly; distingue[Fr];
unembarrassed, degage[Fr]; janty[obs3], jaunty; dashing, fast.
     modish, stylish, chic, trendy, recherche; newfangled &c. (unfamiliar)
83; all the rage, all the go|!; with it, in, faddish.
     in court, in full dress, in evening dress; en grande tenue[Fr] &c.
(ornament) 847. 
     Adv. fashionably &c. adj.; for fashion’s sake. 
     Phr. a la francaise, a la parisienne; a l’ anglaise[Fr], a l’
americaine[Fr]; autre temps autre mauers[Fr]; chaque pays a sa guise[Fr].

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     #853.  Ridiculousness. —­ N. ridiculousness &c. adj.; comicality,
oddity &c. adj.; extravagance, drollery.
     farce, comedy; burlesque &c. (ridicule) 856; buffoonery &c. (fun) 840;
frippery; doggerel verses; absurdity &c. 497; bombast &c. (unmeaning) 517; anticlimax, bathos; eccentricity, monstrosity &c. (unconformity) 83; laughingstock &c. 857. 
     V. be ridiculous &c. adj.; pass from the sublime to the ridiculous;
make one laugh; play the fool, make a fool of oneself, commit an absurdity. 
     Adj. ridiculous, ludicrous; comical; droll, funny, laughable, pour
rire, grotesque, farcical, odd; whimsical, whimsical as a dancing bear; fanciful, fantastic, queer, rum, quizzical, quaint, bizarre; screaming; eccentric &c. (unconformable) 83; strange, outlandish, out of the way, baroque, weird; awkward &c. (ugly) 846.
     extravagant, outre, monstrous, preposterous, bombastic, inflated,
stilted, burlesque, mock heroic.
     drollish; seriocomic, tragicomic; gimcrack, contemptible &c.
(unimportant) 643; doggerel; ironical &c. (derisive) 856; risible. 
     Phr. risum teneatis amici [Horace]; rideret Heraclitus; du sublime au
ridicule il n’y a qu’un pas [Napoleon].

     #854.  Fop. —­ N. fop, fine gentleman; swell; dandy, dandiprat|!;
exquisite, coxcomb, beau, macaroni, blade, blood, buck, man about town, fast man; fribble, milliner|!; Jemmy Jessamy|!, carpet knight; masher, dude.
     fine lady, coquette; flirt, vamp.