fashion plate
Example Sentences
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Trinitie is no less of a fashion plate than her husband, favoring elaborate hats and designer dresses.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 30, 2022
The 38 outfits designed for Diana by William Ivey Long dramatized how she transformed herself from kindergarten teacher to royal frump to executive princess to international fashion plate far better than the writers did.
From New York Times • Dec. 30, 2021
A drab housewife becomes a Paris fashion plate, then meets her ex-husband.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 1, 2021
She’s a fashion plate who loves the finer things in life; he’s a nudist.
From Slate • Aug. 3, 2020
I fiddle with the curly mass of my bangs and slouch down, feeling like the plainest girl ever next to the fashion plate that is Katherine Deveraux.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
