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:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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:
- 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?
- 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?
- 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.
- She served the apple pie a la mode.
- A diet of pork chops, pie a la mode, and chocolate was obviously better for your skin than healthy, nutritious plankton.
- We are going to dine tonight in our rooms, with our family, sharing hamburgers, french fries, and apple pie a la mode.
- Here was Johnson’s Hotel, celebrated for upwards of seventy years for its à la mode beef.
- Why is the dash the mark a la mode?
- The beef I could not often taste, seldom chew, and never digest—I should say it was rather leather mode than a la mode.
- Of all the senseless institutions of this world, a wedding a la mode is about the most preposterous.
- Tis considered a la mode in London to be so familiar with it as to be able to quote passages from it on occasion.
- Our lesson this morning will begin with beef a la mode rolls.
- What dependent creatures we are, after all—houses and lands, robes a la mode, even, don’t suffice.
- For beef a la mode, it is described in the receipt.
- Those for beef a la mode are of steel, and must be flat near the point, in order to cut the meat.
- The under side of the round should be cooked a la mode, or braised.
- The concourse of the citizens thither is alluded to in the prologue to Marriage à la Mode.
- This needle is only used for beef a la mode.
- You are handsome, my dear, if not quite a la mode.
- He must be of careful demeanor, Both graceful and eloquent too, Must adjust his cravat “a la mode,” Wear his beaver, decidedly, so.
- Sir Charles Wogan, too, brought up Pope from the Forest of Windsor, to dress a la mode, and introduce at Will’s Coffee-house.
- He was of the blond type, past middle life and in dress anything but a la mode.
- Prepare, cook, and serve bear and buffalo meat like venison, beef a la mode, or stewed.
- The fist, a la mode de John Bull, is commonly the ultimatum of a Yankee’s revenge.
- The house was crowded by the most fashionable black belles in the county, many of them dressed “a la mode.”
- I was always soft-hearted, but red eyes at a dinner party are not a la mode.
- Each Number contains a Fashion Plate, engraved on Steel, colored a la mode, and of unrivaled beauty.
- No, one’s intimate friend must be a la mode.
- A picture a la mode of the period when fair dames made their red cheeks cute with eccentric patches.
- It reminded Louis unpleasantly of the attitude of the woman in the Marriage a la Mode.