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fad

Temporary fashion that enjoys a brief period of popularity before becoming unfashionable. Novelty consumer items are often examples of fads.
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The fad without a name was one which dealt with people's finger marks.
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He was the fad of the hour, the adventurer who had stormed Parnassus while the gods nodded.
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On the contrary, he's as poor as a rat for his position, and apparently without the least ambition to be anything else; certainly he won't enrich himself by making a public fad of what all sensible people are agreed upon as it is.
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