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Fashionable greeting is pretentious (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

chichi

'pretentious' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'fashionable greeting' is the wordplay.
'fashionable' becomes 'chic' (I've seen this before).
'greeting' becomes 'hi' (hi is a kind of greeting).
'chic'+'hi'='CHICHI'

'is' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for chichi that I've seen before include "Very chic, repetitively" , "3[AFFECTATION]?" , "Pretentious" , "Pretentiously stylish" , "Precious or affected in style" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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