vogu·ish

[voh-gish]
adjective
1.
being in vogue; fashionable; chic.
2.
briefly popular or fashionable; faddish.

Origin:
1925–30; vogue + -ish1

vogu·ish·ness, noun
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vogue (vəʊɡ) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
1.  the popular style at a specified time (esp in the phrase in vogue)
2.  a period of general or popular usage or favour: the vogue for such dances is now over
 
adj
3.  (usually prenominal) popular or fashionable: a vogue word
 
[C16: from French: a rowing, fashion, from Old Italian voga, from vogare to row, of unknown origin]
 
'voguish
 
adj

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Voguish is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
Example sentences
But books on voguish subjects threaten to squeeze more conventional scholarship off publishers' lists.
Everything about them is new and voguish excepting the prices which are decidedly commonplace.
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