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démodé

American  
[dey-maw-dey] / deɪ mɔˈdeɪ /

adjective

French.
  1. no longer in fashion; out of date; outmoded.


démodé British  
/ demɔde /

adjective

  1. out of fashion; outmoded

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of démodé

French, from dé- out of + mode style, fashion

Example Sentences

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The one-story house, on a modest acreage, is of off-white brick, in French country style—subtly different from French provincial, which has become démodé.

From Golf Digest • Mar. 26, 2020

Freudian analyses are démodé today, partly because Freud, a conspiracy theorist of the mind, had problems separating scientific reason from hokum.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 9, 2015

And for many modern women, that concept is démodé.

From New York Times • Jul. 2, 2012

Miller continued to work through the 90s, but he seemed ancien regime as glamour became démodé in television.

From The Guardian • Jun. 12, 2012

And she looked at their clothes, their smart and slender shoes, the richness of their cloaks hanging over chair backs, and she saw her own frock as it was, dyed and mended and démodé.

From Married Life The True Romance by Edginton, May

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