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VOGUE
vogue, trend, style
(noun) the popular taste at a given time; “leather is the latest vogue”; “he followed current trends”; “the 1920s had a style of their own”
vogue
(noun) a current state of general acceptance and use
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
vogue (countable and uncountable, plural vogues)
The prevailing fashion or style.
Popularity or a current craze.
(dance) A highly stylized modern dance that evolved out of the Harlem ballroom scene in the 1960s.
(Polari) A cigarette.
Verb
vogue (third-person singular simple present vogues, present participle voguing, simple past and past participle vogued)
(intransitive) To dance in the vogue dance style.
(Polari) To light a cigarette.
Anagrams
• vouge
Etymology
Proper noun
Vogue
A fashion and lifestyle magazine.
Anagrams
• vouge
Source: Wiktionary
Vogue, n. Etym: [F. vogue a rowing, vogue, fashion, It. voga, fr. vogare to row, to sail; probably fr. OHG. wag 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 Burke. Use may revive the obsoletest words, And banish those that now are most in vogue. Roscommon.
2. Influence; power; sway. [Obs.] Strype.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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