Definition of "high fashion" [high fashion]

• See high style. (noun)
• Haute couture. (noun)

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• "They were in a district called Glow-So, which, by the looks of it, was the high fashion capital of the realm."
• "To come and make their own purchases in these dirty, crowded, most inconvenient, most troublesome, and most ill-mannered shops has become the high fashion and a daily amusement of the great and gay London folk; and the Haymarket in the afternoon is as full of fine carriages, opposite the co-operative store, as it used formerly to be on a gala night at the opera house, and friends and acquaintances make appointments for meeting at the co-op, as they vulgarly abbreviate it."