a la mode vs swank

a la mode

adj
  • Fashionable; in the current style or fashion. 

  • Served with ice cream. 

  • Of beef: larded and stewed with vegetables. 

adv
  • In a particular style or fashion. 

swank

adj
  • Fashionably elegant, posh. 

noun
  • A fashionably elegant person. 

  • Ostentation; bravado. 

verb
  • To swagger, to show off. 

How often have the words a la mode and swank occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )