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Dictionary: à la  a la (ä' lä, ä' lə, ăl'ə) pronunciation
also prep.
In the style or manner of: a poem à la Ogden Nash.

[French, short for à la mode de, in the manner of.]


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[ah lah] A French idiom meaning "in the manner (or style) of"; the full phrase is à la mode de. In cooking, this phrase designates the style of preparation or a particular garnish. A la bourguignonne, for example, would mean "as prepared in Burgundy."

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Like, in the manner of, as in He hoped to break all records, à la Babe Ruth. This expression, an abbreviation of the French à la mode de (for "in the manner of"), has been used in English since the late 1500s.


 
 

 

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