vogue

[vogue]

If something is the latest vogue, it is the latest fashion. When your new hairstyle catches on, it's in vogue or if it becomes unpopular, it’s not.

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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.

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"

Noun
a current state of general acceptance and use


n.
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.

n.
Influence; power; sway.


Vogue

Vogue , n. [F. vogue a rowing, vogue, fashion, It. voga, fr. vogare to row, to sail; probably fr. OHG. wagn 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.
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.
Use may revive the obsoletest words, And banish those that now are most in vogue.
2. Influence; power; sway. [Obs.] Strype.

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.

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Usage Examples

In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue.

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?

So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.

If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.

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