height of fashion

collocation in English

meaningsofheightandfashion

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height
noun[C or U]
uk
/haɪt/us
/haɪt/
the distance from the top to the bottom of something, or the quality of ...
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fashion
noun
uk
/ˈfæʃ.ən/us
/ˈfæʃ.ən/
a style that is popular at a particular time, especially in clothes, hair, ...
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(Definition ofheightandfashionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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She was quite presentable and clean, but obviously not dressed in theheightoffashion, and was carrying two bags.
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To them it is the veryheightoffashion, but often to our way of thinking it is perfectly frightful.
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Productivity agreements are very much theheightoffashionat present, but they achieve nothing except higher costs if the resultant productivity is not in fact achieved.
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She was successful in maintaining her establishment at theheightoffashion, although attendees continued to remark on how crowded it was.
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The song was also written and released long after pillbox hats had been at theheightoffashion.
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Thus, the "golilla" was theheightoffashion, and appeared in most of the male portraits of the period.
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These were theheightoffashionat the time, often detachable from the gown ("camora"), and of a higher value, often by multiples than the main costume.
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Neo-classicism was then theheightoffashion.
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As a poet, she emerged in the early 1990s when grunge was theheightoffashionand her direct, aggressive and uncompromisingly modern poetry was highly accessible.
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They were at theheightoffashionin the fourteenth century, but, because they were made of solid silver, when the fashion changed all were melted down.
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