fashion n 1904 Ulster J Arch x, 126 ~ 'habit.' Custom, habit or practice (1925 Dial Notes v, 330).
   1930 BARNES 172, 276 I had a fashion always of going in a bar there called Jimmie McKay's... He had a great fashion of saying that when he was doing anything of consequence. T 54-64 The door to our fishin' room [in] the little shack place we had built, had a fashion when the door'd go to an' lots o' times the button we had on it'd turn. P 54-69 It used to be a fashion to frame and glass vaccination certificates. 1975 GUY 145 I always had the fashion of sleeping with my head as handy to the window as possible.

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