vogue

American  

[vohg] / voʊg /

noun

1. something in fashion, as at a particular time.

   Short hairdos were the vogue in the twenties.

   Synonyms:

   mode

2. popular currency, acceptance, or favor; popularity.

   The book is having a great vogue.

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vogue British  

/ vəʊɡ /

noun

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

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adjective

1. (usually prenominal) popular or fashionable

   a vogue word

Related Words

See fashion.

Other Word Forms

• prevogue noun
• voguish adjective

Etymology

Origin of vogue

First recorded in 1565–75; Middle French: literally, “wave or course of success,” from Old Italian voga “a rowing,” derivative of vogare “to row, sail,” of unknown origin

Example Sentences

Frances Hughes, co-founder of online wholesale marketplace Starch, said there’s no question that gourmet sweet treats are still in vogue.

From Los Angeles Times

“We are starting off the year with that broadening theme back in vogue,” said Keith Lerner, chief investment officer at Truist Advisory Services.

From MarketWatch

And while he boasts of his strong aesthetic sense—trained as a physicist, he left the field in the 1970s “nauseated” by the “hideously ugly” ideas then coming into vogue—his eye is suspect.

From The Wall Street Journal

She also delighted in “any thing ridiculous,” such as the vogue for luxurious rustic cottages and fake Gothic ruins.

From The Wall Street Journal

Always ahead of the curve, LeCun studied machine learning before it was en vogue.

From The Wall Street Journal