a la mode
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Her hearty pecan pie recipe comes complete with a no-churn ice cream pairing, because no slice deserves to go without an a la mode moment.
From Salon ● May 30, 2022
Do we think that in five years’ time there’ll have been a massive kick back and proper Crazy Gang up-and-unders will be a la mode?
From The Guardian ● Sep. 16, 2019
The most entertaining dessert arrives when you ask for bread pudding to be served a la mode.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 12, 2019
Go there for 21 kinds of pie — and four scoops of vanilla ice cream, if you ask for it a la mode.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 25, 2018
He ordered that I be bought a new bag-wig, and my mother a whole series of costly dresses a la mode du beau monde.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
In fact, Imprint’s Mind Body Baby: Astrology is part of a very à la mode four-book series that purports to boil down the New Age for ages 0 and up.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2020
The backdrop is a cubist cityscape; their hair is cropped in the manner of Parisian garçons; and their red lips and shaded eyes are thoroughly à la mode.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 5, 2018
It has remained there, waxing and waning à la mode.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 11, 2017
Don’t miss: The bleu cheese haystack -- a pile of shoestring fries covered in blue cheese and buffalo wing sauce -- and the apple-filled glazed doughnut served à la mode.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2015
You are handsome, my dear, if not quite à la mode.
From The Gorgeous Isle A Romance; Scene: Nevis, B.W.I. 1842 by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
