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etymology - Origin of the meaning of à la mode - English Language . . . The phrase à la mode was imported into English as a francophile (and therefore stylish) way of saying "in style " As Peter Shor notes in a comment above (and as the quotation from Pepys's 1667 diary confirms), à la mode was in use in France in the phrase "bouef à la mode" almost certainly before the anglicized "alamode beef" took hold in