A woman taken up with fashion, like most (7)
I believe the answer is:
average
'most' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are adjectives. Perhaps there's a link between them I don't understand?
'a woman taken up with fashion' is the wordplay.
'a woman' becomes 'eva' (woman's name).
'taken up' shows that the letters should be reversed in order.
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'fashion' becomes 'rage' (something all the rage is fashionable).
'eva' reversed gives 'ave'.
'ave'+'rage'='AVERAGE'
'like' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for average that I've seen before include "Medium; normal" , "Medial" , "Of no exceptional quality or ability" , "Moderate" , "Mean - typical" .)