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ǁ Ton3. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1916, rev. 2022. ǁ Ton3 Now rare. See also bon-ton s.v. BON. [Fr. ton manner in general:—L. ton-us, TONE in coloring, etc.] The fashion, the vogue, the mode; fashionable air or style.

1 1769.  Lloyd’s Evening Post, 18–20 Dec., 589. The present fashionable Ton (a word used at present to express every thing that’s fashionable) is a set of French puppets.

2 1775.  Sheridan, Rivals, I. i. None of the London whips of any degree of ton wear wigs now.

3 1778.  Miss Burney, Evelina (1791), II. xxxvii. 244. Don’t we all know that you lead the ton in the beau monde?

4 1812.  H. & J. Smith, Rej. Addr., Beautiful Incend., ix. And if she were here all alone, Our house might nocturnally boast A bumper of fashion and ton.

5 1812.  Combe, Picturesque, XI. A mantle, too, is all the ton, And therefore I have order’d one.

6 1881.  Besant & Rice, Chapl. of Fleet, II. i. In everything … make my niece an accomplished woman, a woman of ton.

7   b.  transf. People of fashion; fashionable society; the fashionable world.

8 1815.  Sporting Mag., XLVI. 93. All the ‘Ton’s’ a stage, And Fashion’s motley votaries are but play’rs.

9 1854.  J. S. C. Abbott, Napoleon (1885), I. xiv. 255. The princess, the nobles, and all the ton had disappeared.

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