Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A lustrous plain-weave silk fabric for head coverings and scarves.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In the fashion; according to the fashion or prevailing mode.
- Fashionable; according to some particular fashion.
- noun A fashion.
- noun A thin glossy silk for hoods, scarfs, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A thin, black silk for hoods, scarfs, etc.; -- often called simply
mode . - adverb According to the fashion or prevailing mode.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
lustrous silk fabric used forheadscarves .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Their works are all Parian marble, alabaster, porphyry, and royal cement; they treat of nothing but heroic deeds, mighty things, grave and difficult matters, and this in a crimson, alamode, rhetorical style.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Their works are all Parian marble, alabaster, porphyry, and royal cement; they treat of nothing but heroic deeds, mighty things, grave and difficult matters, and this in a crimson, alamode, rhetorical style.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Then she made us the following speech in byssin words, such as Parisatis desired should be spoken to her son Cyrus, or at least of crimson alamode:
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Then she made us the following speech in byssin words, such as Parisatis desired should be spoken to her son Cyrus, or at least of crimson alamode:
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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The French servant, moreover, was expected to bring with him from Paris—none ever seemed to come from other parts of the country—a knowledge of the best and most recent “alamode” fashions, whether in dressing hair, making clothes, or preparing food.
Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983
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The French servant, moreover, was expected to bring with him from Paris—none ever seemed to come from other parts of the country—a knowledge of the best and most recent “alamode” fashions, whether in dressing hair, making clothes, or preparing food.
Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983
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_To boil peeping Chickens, the best and rarest way, alamode.
The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery Robert May
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The round of beef is the best piece to alamode -- the shoulder clod is good, and comes lower; it is also good stewed, without any spices.
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Once, I remember carrying my own bread (which I had brought from home in the morning) under my arm, wrapped in a piece of paper, like a book, and going to a famous alamode beef-house near Drury Lane, and ordering a small plate of that delicacy to eat with it.
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Once, I remember carrying my own bread (which I had brought from home in the morning) under my arm, wrapped in a piece of paper, like a book, and going to a famous alamode beef-house near Drury Lane, and ordering a 'small plate' of that delicacy to eat with it.
David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917
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