a la mode

Pie à la mode

Meanings

Adjective

Fashionable; in the current style or fashion.
Served with ice cream.
Of beef: larded and stewed with vegetables.

Adverb

In a particular style or fashion.

Related

Similar words

cool, trendy, classy

Origin

From French à la mode ("in fashion"). The US sense was coined by polyglot restaurant owner John Gieriet in Minnesota in the 1800s though later attributed to Berry Hall and Charles Watson Townsend.

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