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Home > Library > Literature & Language > English Usage is used in English without regard to gender, despite being feminine in French (the corresponding masculine form au is not used in this way in English). Apart from its use in phrases borrowed whole from French (e.g. à la carte , and cookery terms such as à la meunière , where au can of course also occur, as in au gratin ), it is used as a semi-naturalized preposition, grammatically phillips seafood buffet dc free though often appearing in print in italics ( There were giant landscape photocollages phillips seafood buffet dc à la David Hockney / The BBC should give serious consideration to an autumn shuffle à la 10 Downing Street ).
Home > Library > Food & Cooking > Food Lover's Companion [ah lah ] A French idiom meaning "in the manner (or style) phillips seafood buffet dc of"; the full phrase is à la mode de. In cooking, this phrase phillips seafood buffet dc designates the style of preparation or a particular garnish. A la bourguignonne, for example, would mean "as prepared in Burgundy ."
Home > Library > Literature & Language > Idioms 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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