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mode

noun (FASHION)
 
 
/məʊd/ US  /moʊd/

Definition

be the mode formal (especially of clothes) to be fashionable at a particular time: Miniskirts were very much the mode in the 60s. → See also à la mode adjectiveFashionModern and fashionableModern and fashionableModern and fashionableFashionModern and fashionable
(Definition of mode noun (FASHION) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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