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à la mode

[ah luh mohd, al-uh-, a la mawd] / ˌɑ lə ˈmoʊd, ˌæl ə-, a la ˈmɔd /


ADJECTIVE
with ice cream
Synonyms


a la mode
ADJECTIVE
with ice cream
Synonyms


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“He would say they had ‘class à la mode.’

From Washington Times ● Apr. 28, 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

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

Goodbye baked chicken breasts; hello pot roast with chestnut-braised green beans and pumpkin pie à la mode.

From Slate ● Dec. 19, 2012

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

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

According to the menu from his visit, he ordered meatloaf, french fries, green beans, a roll with butter and apple pie a la mode, which he ate first.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 16, 2020

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

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

A diet of pork chops, pie a la mode, and chocolate was obviously better for your skin than healthy, nutritious plankton.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer


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