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vogue    Audio Help   [vohg] Pronunciation Key,
–noun
1.something in fashion, as at a particular time: Short hairdos were the vogue in the twenties.
2.popular currency, acceptance, or favor; popularity: The book is having a great vogue.

[Origin: 1565–75; < MF: wave or course of success < OIt voga a rowing, deriv. of vogare to row, sail < ?]

1. mode. See fashion.
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vogue    Audio Help   (vōg)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. The prevailing fashion, practice, or style: Hoop skirts were once the vogue.
  2. Popular acceptance or favor; popularity: a party game no longer in vogue. See Synonyms at fashion.

intr.v.   vogued, vogue·ing or vogu·ing, vogues
To dance by striking a series of rigid, stylized poses, evocative of fashion models during photograph shoots.


[French, from Old French, probably from voguer, to sail, row, of Germanic origin; see wegh- in Indo-European roots. V., after the fashion magazine Vogue.]

Word History: The history of the word vogue demonstrates how sense can change dramatically over time even while flowing, as it were, in the same channel. The Indo-European root of vogue is *wegh-, meaning "to go, transport in a vehicle." Among many other forms derived from this root was the Germanic stem *wēga-, "water in motion." From this stem came the Old Low German verb wogōn, meaning "to sway, rock." This verb passed into Old French as voguer, which meant "to sail, row." The Old French word yielded the noun vogue, which probably literally meant "a rowing," and so by extension "a course," and figuratively "reputation" and later "reputation of fashionable things" or "prevailing fashion." The French, who have given us many fashionable things, passed this noun on as well, it being first recorded in English in 1571.

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vogue 
1571, the vogue, "leading place in popularity, greatest success or acceptance," from M.Fr. vogue "fashion, success, drift, swaying motion (of a boat)" lit. "a rowing," from O.Fr. voguer "to row, sway, set sail," probably from O.Low Ger. *wogon, variant of wagon "float, fluctuate," lit. "to balance oneself" (see weigh). Apparently the notion is of being "borne along on the waves of fashion." It. vogare also probably is borrowed from Gmc. Phrase in vogue "having a prominent place in popular fashion" first recorded 1643. The fashion magazine began publication in 1892.

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vogue

noun
1. the popular taste at a given time; "leather is the latest vogue"; "he followed current trends"; "the 1920s had a style of their own" 
2. a current state of general acceptance and use 

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Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
vogue [vəug] noun
a fashion
Example: Short hair is the vogue.
Arabic: موضَه، طِراز
Chinese (Simplified): 时尚
Chinese (Traditional): 時尚
Czech: móda
Danish: mode
Dutch: mode
Estonian: mood
Finnish: muoti
French: mode
German: die Mode
Greek: μόδα
Hungarian: divat
Icelandic: tíska
Indonesian: mode
Italian: moda
Japanese: 流行
Korean: 유행, 성행
Latvian: mode
Lithuanian: mada
Norwegian: mote
Polish: moda
Portuguese (Brazil): moda
Portuguese (Portugal): moda
Romanian: vogă, modă
Russian: мода
Slovak: móda
Slovenian: moda
Spanish: moda
Swedish: mode
Turkish: moda
See also: in vogue

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Vogue

Vogue\, n. [F. vogue a rowing, vogue, fashion, It. voga, fr. vogare to row, to sail; probably fr. OHG. wag?n to move, akin to E. way. Cf. Way.]

1. The way or fashion of people at any particular time; temporary mode, custom, or practice; popular reception for the time; -- used now generally in the phrase in vogue.

One vogue, one vein, One air of thoughts usurps my brain. --Herbert.

Whatsoever its vogue may be, I still flatter myself that the parents of the growing generation will be satisfied with what ?? to be taught to their children in Westminster, in Eton, or in Winchester. --Burke.

Use may revive the obsoletest words, And banish those that now are most in vogue. --Roscommon.

2. Influence; power; sway. [Obs.] --Strype.
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