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Definition of After a fashion
1. Adverb. To some extent; not very well. "He speaks French after a fashion"
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Literary usage of After a fashion
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"The story of Osiris, Isis, and Horus has been preserved after a fashion by
Plutarch, but the great mass of the myths has perished. ..."
2. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1882)
"The sympathetic treatment introduced by Sir Kenelm Digby, is practised after a
fashion in ... after a fashion ..."
3. The Two Chiefs of Dunboy: Or an Irish Romance of the Last Century by James Anthony Froude (1889)
"He had altered her after a fashion of his own into something like the modern
schooner. She had attracted attention as the only specimen of her class which ..."
4. The Two Chiefs of Dunboy: Or an Irish Romance of the Last Century by James Anthony Froude (1889)
"He had altered her after a fashion of his own into something like the modern
schooner. She had attracted attention as the only specimen of her class which ..."
5. A Plea for Phoenetic Spelling: Or, The Necessity of Orthographic Reform by Alexander John Ellis (1848)
"... and none are spelled in the usual orthography, although each is spelled after
a fashion for which an example may be adduced, as there proved. ..."
6. An American Four-in-hand in Britain by Andrew Carnegie (1907)
"If Dunfermline and its thunders had not been in the distance, I think I could
have given it after a fashion, but I failed altogether that morning. ..."
7. A Memoir of Robert C. Winthrop by Robert Charles Winthrop (1897)
"I acknowledge, however, that in my old age I like to say kind things of people
when I conscientiously can, but I try to discriminate after a fashion. ..."
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