mod cons
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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It continued in the shadow of St Paul’s Cathedral, in a purpose-built, corporate building with all the mod cons.
From BBC • Dec. 6, 2024
For all its mod cons, though, the best thing about our mobile home is the view of the Pyrenees, green and gently curvaceous as they descend into the Mediterranean.
From Washington Post • Mar. 16, 2017
He saddles his beautiful palomino, and we expect an open prairie, but he winds up in a bright new kitchen, agleam with mod cons, where Gena Rowlands makes him ham and eggs.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 9, 2016
Thunderbirds might be coming back but the puppets won't, after Anderson said "everything will be changed" using "today's technology" and "all the mod cons".
From The Guardian • Jan. 12, 2011
The 95 stately rooms are a checklist of classic good taste, with elaborate moldings, gilded furniture, French silks, 16th-century antiques, Limoges porcelain, playful frescoes, and marble, marble, marble, plus mod cons like flat-screen TV's.
From Time Magazine Archive
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