fashion plate

Questions about fashion plate

What does fashion plate mean?

fashion plate means "a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for fashion plate?

Close synonyms include dandy, dude, fop, gallant, sheik. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fashion plate a common word?

fashion plate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.