单词 | alamodality |
释义 | alamodality|æləməʊˈdælɪtɪ| [a. mod.L. alamodalitas, f. alamodal-is, f. à-la-mode: see next. Alamodal seems not to occur.] The quality of being à la mode, or of following the fashion of the time; fashionableness.
1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Alamodality, a study or endeavour to accommodate a man's self in point of behaviour, dress, conversation, and other actions of life, to the reigning taste of custom, from a motive of complaisance, and to avoid the imputation of ill-breeding. Ibid., A German writer..has a dissertation express on alamodality in writing (Geamœnius de Alamodalitate Scribendi). 1834Southey Doctor xx. (D.) Doubtless it hath been selected for me because of its alamodality—a good and pregnant word. |

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