Definitions
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- adjective out of fashion
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Examples
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Im sure Uncle Karl would find me quite demode, but its on my life list to attend one of the chanel couture grande atelier shows he masterminds.
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Im sure Uncle Karl would find me quite demode, but its on my life list to attend one of the chanel couture grande atelier shows he masterminds.
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Tell the operator that Karl Lagerfeld thinks you're 'demode'.
I want a t-shirt that says... Lisa Nicole 2008
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Tell the operator that Karl Lagerfeld thinks you're 'demode'.
Archive 2008-11-01 Lisa Nicole 2008
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Not that she was overspending, but the time involved in stripping out all the old fittings and demode decorations was taking a lot longer than her first estimate.
The Dreaming Void Hamilton, Peter F. 2007
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What was considered "good form" in this pastime among our forefathers now decidedly demode, and the correct drinker of 1910 is as obsolete and out of date in the present decade as the
Perfect Behavior; a guide for ladies and gentlemen in all social crises Donald Ogden Stewart 1937
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Well, then, seriously, melodrama was the correct ticket and all that in 1840, but we've outgrown it; it's devilish demode to chuck things in people's faces.
Lady Baltimore Owen Wister 1899
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Fear not, Karl's trademark fingerless leather gloves are present in the collection - take note Madonna - and my outfit above, plus another of the Chanel designer's accents: stiff shirt collars, guaranteed to instantly 'Karlify' even the most demode get-up.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2012
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I have a faint suspicion that he has some odd blood coursing through his veins, at any rate it manifests itself every time, he stands up, dressed in the most outlandish demode clothes and gives a typical sneering utterance.
British Blogs Guy Fawkes' blog 2010
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At once forcibly futuristic and demode, spectacular and brooding on the outside, the CCTV headquarters will remain truly untested as an office building until employees move in next December.
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