Meanings of continental fashion in English

They drank, clinking glasses in continental fashion, and the host shook hands and departed.

The room was decorated in the gaudy continental fashion, and the warm sunlight was shining in joyously.

I had no choice in the matter; the affair was prearranged by our parents, after the continental fashion.

Cafés had put out tables and chairs on the pavements in the continental fashion and people sat in the sunshine drinking beer.

Adam remained at Hanover Lodge for lunch, a meal which his hostess called breakfast, and which was served in the continental fashion, every dish separate.

They were good rooms, perhaps with an excess of gilt and glass after the continental fashion, but they were comfortable, and John said to Julie:

Coffee and milk we have, in the Continental fashion, and some excellent rolls and butter.

Pausing a little ways within the room, the fellow clicked heels and bowed punctiliously in Continental fashion, from the hips.

"The Continental fashions were extremely picturesque," said Mrs. Jasper.

Having made you sup on horror a la Bretonne, or Continental fashion, I am now to give you a savoury from England.