à la mode
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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
Everybody wears a beard à la mode du moyen âge—flâneurs, coachmen, marquises, artisans.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various
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
On the desserts list: decadent cookies a la mode and kombucha floats.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 13, 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
