Lexicographical Neighbors of Fashery
Literary usage of Fashery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris, George Grove (1875)
"... for besides trouble and fashery of bo.ly sustained for her, my mind was seldom
quiet, for doing somewhat for the comfort of her troubled conscience. ..."
2. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"I wonder you dinna think shame o' yoursel'," to her husband, "when you see the
fashery you mak'." Mr. Lyndsay, meanwhile, having felt the invalid's pulse, ..."
3. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"cumber (ar- chaic), fash or fashery (Scot, and dial. Eng.), molestation (rare),
perplexity (now rare or obs.); spec, sorrow, misfortune, anxiety, fear. 2. ..."
4. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1889)
"fashery. Over niceness. Cumb. FASHION. (1) The farcy in horses. Wilts. (4) A
fringe, or row of anything worn like a fringe. (A..S.) Shakespeare and Dekker ..."
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