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‖ à la mode, phr.
(‖ a la mɔd, ˈæləməʊd)
Also 7–9 alamode.
[Fr., in the manner or fashion (15th c. in Littré), adopted in Eng. in 17th c. as an adv., and used also as adj. and n. In the advb. sense now again treated as Fr. Formerly often written all-a-mode, as if containing all. Cf. all alive, all-agog.]
1. a. phr. In the fashion, according to the fashion.
1649Selden Laws of Eng. i. lxxi. (1739) 198 Commanders that are never a-la-mode but when all in Iron and Steel. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. i. 14 With Bands, Cuffs, Hats and Caps, ‘al a mode’ to the Times. 1657Sanderson Serm. (ed. 4) Pref. 1, I confess they are not Alamode. 1680–1Roxb. Bal. (1883) IV. 631 And All-a-mode of the brisk Monsieur, In the midst of the Pit, like ourselves we do sit. 1751Chesterfield Lett. 241 (1792) III. 108 If you can get that name generally at Paris, it will put you à la mode.
b. Cookery. Of a dessert: served with ice-cream. U.S.
1903Everybody's Mag. VIII. 6/2 Tea and buns,..apple pie à la mode and chocolate were the most serious menus. 1928Delineator Cook Bk. 734 ‘Pie a la mode’ is pie served with ice-cream. 1949L. P. De Gouy Pie Book 65 Apple Pie... Serve warm or cold, with cheese, a la mode or with whipped cream. 1971‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Doctor Bird v. 67 We had..apple pie à la mode. À la mode in the United States means ice-cream. 1985N.Y. Times xxi. 29/3 Highlights are the chocolate mousse cake, with its intense, creamy filling, and the nearly black chocolate cake, served à la mode in a pool of surprisingly insipid butterscotch sauce.
2. adjectively, Fashionable; according to some particular fashion.
1650Lovelace Poems (1817) ii. 53 Where now each alamode inhabitant, Himself and's manners both do pay you rent. 1693Locke Educ. 67 That plainness of Nature, which the Alamode People call Clownishness. 1713Steele Englishm. No. 40. 260 All sorts of Perukes the most Alamode. 1761Smollett Gil Blas iii. v. (1802) I. 266, I began by five or six à-la-mode bows.
b. esp. in alamode silk (see 4); alamode beef: Scraps and remainders of beef boiled down into a thick soup or stew.
1686Lond. Gaz. mmcxxvi/4 Very good black narrow Lute-Strings, and Alamode-Silks. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Writers on cookery give the preparation of alamode or larded beef. Collins, Salt and Fish, p. 132. 1831Macaulay Johnson (1860) 88 His taste in cookery formed in..Alamode beef-shops, was far from delicate. 1843Hood Turtles i, Alamode-beef and greens.
†3. subst. A fashion or temporary mood. Obs.
1654Whitlock Mann. Engl. 354 (T.) Her alamodes are suitable shapings of her mind to all changes of occurrences. 1683Kennet tr. Erasm. Moriæ Enc. 44 For an old man to marry a young wife..is become the A la mode of the times.
4. A thin, light, glossy black silk.
1676Lond. Gaz. mxcix/4 Several Pieces of wrought Silk, as Taffaties, Sarcenets, Alamodes, and Lutes. Ibid. mxciii/4 Sarcenet and Alamode Hoods. 1702Ord. in Counc. 8 Mch. in Lond. Gaz. mmmdccxci/4 To wear Hatbands of Black English Alamode covered with Black Crape. 1861Macaulay Hist. Eng. V. 53 Regular exchange of the fleeces of Cotswold for the alamodes of Lyons. |