vogue

[vohg]

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.

vogue

/ 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

adjective

1. (usually prenominal) popular or fashionable

   a vogue word

Other Word Forms

• prevogue noun
• voguish adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of vogue¹

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of vogue¹

C16: from French: a rowing, fashion, from Old Italian voga, from vogare to row, of unknown origin

Synonym Study

See fashion.

Example Sentences

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.

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

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

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The AI-trade, led by Nvidia, was back in vogue to start the week after a recent beat down, but signs of stress from CoreWeave seem to be weighing on sentiment for Tuesday.

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“Baseball is still a nineteenth-century construct,” she writes, “born at a time when pocket watches were still in vogue.”

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