Meanings of modishness in English

A figure of exquisite modishness, she perched upon the porch rail near Chester.

George regarded the short thoroughfare made notorious by the dilettantism, the modishness, and the witticisms of art.

Obsessed with the modishness of the hour

But originality and modishness are different things.

The newcomers were garbed in that debonair and "cultured" modishness so dear to the hearts of magazine illustrators.

He watched Janet's graceful gestures, and examined with pleasure the beauties of her half-season toilet; he discerned the modishness of her umbrella handle.