Did you perchance mean modern?
Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Striving to be modern in appearance or style but lacking taste or refinement; pretentious.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or relating to a popularization of art deco that used bright colors and rectangular shapes
Etymologies
- French, modern, from Old French; see modern. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Peter db bistro moderne is famed for their foie gras burgers, but I doubt that they’ll be on their RW menu as I think it normally runs around $30 by itself.”
“By the late 1920s, about a score of companies were mass-producing diners, nearly all in a streamlined art deco style known as moderne, with gleaming stainless-steel exteriors, and insides of polished dark wood and more shiny metal.”
“Ses éléments constitutifs, ses rapports avec les langues secrètes de l'Europe méridionale et l'argot moderne, avec un appendice sur l'argot juge par”
“As for moderne, that is left to the chef, Chris Leahy, an apostle of Daniel Boulud and Laurent Tourondel.”
“There are, of course, superficial differences: the paved streets, the cars and trucks and garages, the neon signs, some "moderne" store fronts, the real estate developments at the edge of town, but not only the spirit but most of the geography has remained intact, suspended in vitro, surviving without thriving.”
“Il faut peut-être établir la distinction suivante entre les victoires des deux résidents de Blenheim Palace : les bains de sang de Blenheim et d’ailleurs en 1704 étaient inspirés par le fanatisme religieux et la soif de pouvoir, illustrant ainsi les instincts les plus barbares du genre humain, tandis que la Seconde Guerre mondiale était, pour utiliser une expression moderne, une guerre nécessaire.”
“She expanded what was then a company making high-quality, hand-crafted repro Chippendale and Hepplewhite by adding an eclectic mix of Chinese lacquerware, Bauhaus modernism and continental-style "moderne" pieces of her own design.”
“Jetzt ist sie selbst kanonisiert worden, während Autoren wieder unglaublich biedere, "moderne" Literatur liefern.”
“Riding down Franklin a litle closer to the Clinton Hill border, on the other hand, I came upon a couple of smaller "moderne" looking buildings whose first floor was a wall of garage doors!”
“They feel that they would like the House (and for that matter the Senate) to have a more 'moderne' style.”
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Chabon, Michael
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seanahan "A fourteen-story office block faced with stone the color of a stained shirt collar, its windows bearded with soot, ornamented with a smattering of moderne zigzags, the Kramler stood out as a lone gesture of commercial hopefulness in a block filled with low brick 'taxpayers'..."
"The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay", Michael Chabon, p79 Aug 10, 2007