Meaning of démodé | Babel Free

Definitions

Outdated, old-fashioned.

Equivalents

Examples

“If, in the foregoing rapid summary, it has not always been possible to speak with uniform gravity, it is that, to-day, the main issue of Cecilia’s story has become—as the author’s own Captain Aresby would now have said—a little démodé.”

““And the Vicar's wife too. Dear, all this is weeks and weeks old; I suppose it has only just reached the Vicarage. Do let us be up-to-date. Physical culture has been quite démodé since last Thursday.””

“Leisure travel will have to rescue the railways because commuting is becoming démodé and viewed with suspicion/mistrust by modern-day employees.”

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