a la mode
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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
So I used to eat something called boeuf a la mode, which was a brisket braised in red wine with mushrooms, bacon and onion.
From Salon ● May 25, 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
“Yes! I dream of tripes a la mode de Caen—warm—with sweetbread.”
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
It’s just the dish to celebrate Mel Brooks’s legacy: Mud pie, à la mode.
From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2023
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
In Chandos Street, too, were the "pudding-shop" and "à la mode beef-shop," of which Dickens made such emphatic mention to his biographer, Forster.
From Dickens' London by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
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