A la mode meaning

Adjective: a la mode

Pronunciation:(,a-lu’mowd)

A la mode meaning:

• In the current fashion or style

Synonyms: latest, in style, in vogue, modish

Adverb: a la mode

Pronunciation:(,a-lu’mowd)

A la mode meaning:

• With ice cream on top or on the side

Quotations:

1. Francesca Lia Block – A kiss about apple pie a la mode with the vanilla creaminess melting in the pie heat. A kiss about chocolate, when you haven’t eaten chocolate in a year. A kiss about palm trees speeding by, trailing pink clouds when you drive down the Strip sizzling with champagne. A kiss about spotlights fanning the sky and the swollen sea spilling like tears all over your legs.
2. Francesca Lia Block – He kissed her. A kiss about apple pie a la mode with the vanilla creaminess melting in the pie heat. A kiss about chocolate, when you haven’t eaten chocolate in a year. A kiss about palm trees speeding by, trailing pink clouds when you drive down the Strip sizzling with champagne. A kiss about spotlights fanning the sky and the swollen sea spilling like tears all over your legs.
3. Timothy Schaffert – After we ate our heaping slice of humble pie, we asked the missus if she could at least serve it up a la mode next time.

Sample sentences:

1. Hope turned sly. What if the slice of apple pie is served a la mode? Smiling, Peggy Sue regarded her tall, brunette, and blue-eyed friend. Is the slice of apple pie served a la mode with three scoops of homemade vanilla ice cream piled on top of it?
2. For the record, Maren voted hot. Drew voted cold. They both voted a la mode. Because, honestly, what’s the point of pie without ice cream?
3. Starla, when you work in a restaurant, it’s not called pie with ice cream on top. It’s called pie a la mode. Try saying it one time. A-la-mo, she pronounced. There’s a good girl, Darius said, grinning. The next time you ask a customer if he wants some dessert, you ask him if he wants pie Alamo.
4. She served the apple pie a la mode.
5. A diet of pork chops, pie a la mode, and chocolate was obviously better for your skin than healthy, nutritious plankton.
6. We are going to dine tonight in our rooms, with our family, sharing hamburgers, french fries, and apple pie a la mode.
7. Here was Johnson’s Hotel, celebrated for upwards of seventy years for its à la mode beef.
8. Why is the dash the mark a la mode?
9. The beef I could not often taste, seldom chew, and never digest—I should say it was rather leather mode than a la mode.
10. Of all the senseless institutions of this world, a wedding a la mode is about the most preposterous.
11. Tis considered a la mode in London to be so familiar with it as to be able to quote passages from it on occasion.
12. Our lesson this morning will begin with beef a la mode rolls.
13. What dependent creatures we are, after all—houses and lands, robes a la mode, even, don’t suffice.
14. For beef a la mode, it is described in the receipt.
15. Those for beef a la mode are of steel, and must be flat near the point, in order to cut the meat.
16. The under side of the round should be cooked a la mode, or braised.
17. The concourse of the citizens thither is alluded to in the prologue to Marriage à la Mode.
18. This needle is only used for beef a la mode.
19. You are handsome, my dear, if not quite a la mode.
20. He must be of careful demeanor, Both graceful and eloquent too, Must adjust his cravat “a la mode,” Wear his beaver, decidedly, so.
21. Sir Charles Wogan, too, brought up Pope from the Forest of Windsor, to dress a la mode, and introduce at Will’s Coffee-house.
22. He was of the blond type, past middle life and in dress anything but a la mode.
23. Prepare, cook, and serve bear and buffalo meat like venison, beef a la mode, or stewed.
24. The fist, a la mode de John Bull, is commonly the ultimatum of a Yankee’s revenge.
25. The house was crowded by the most fashionable black belles in the county, many of them dressed “a la mode.”
26. I was always soft-hearted, but red eyes at a dinner party are not a la mode.
27. Each Number contains a Fashion Plate, engraved on Steel, colored a la mode, and of unrivaled beauty.
28. No, one’s intimate friend must be a la mode.
29. A picture a la mode of the period when fair dames made their red cheeks cute with eccentric patches.
30. It reminded Louis unpleasantly of the attitude of the woman in the Marriage a la Mode.