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Alamode

Alamode \Al"a*mode`\, adv. & a. [F. [`a] la mode after the fashion.] According to the fashion or prevailing mode. ``Alamode beef shops.''
--Macaulay.

Alamode

Alamode \Al"a*mode`\, n. A thin, black silk for hoods, scarfs, etc.; -- often called simply mode.
--Buchanan.

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alamode

a. According to the fashion or prevailing mode. adv. According to the fashion or prevailing mode. n. A lustrous silk fabric used for headscarves.

Usage examples of "alamode".

Book written by William Molineux of Dublin, and against certain Smugglers of Alamodes and Lustrings from France.

Hams and Fowl, Custards and Tarts, fried Noodles and Opossum Alamodes, all the while deep in discourse upon the deepest Topicks there are.

The lads, whose flow of saliva has begun to escape the best efforts of their lower lips to contain it, proceed to eat their way from one end of a long trestle table to the other, thro' Hams and Fowl, Custards and Tarts, fried Noodles and Opossum Alamodes, all the while deep in discourse upon the deepest Topicks there are.

But the war was now over, and most of the English and Dutch navy lay dismantled in port, a few small vessels only being in commission to intercept the smuggling from France that was carrying on, much to the detriment of English manufacture, of certain articles then denominated alamodes and lutestrings.

As we before observed, the great articles in request, and which were now smuggled from France, were alamodes and lute-strings.