Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
noun
- something in fashion, as at a particular time: Short hairdos were the vogue in the twenties.
- popular currency, acceptance, or favor; popularity: The book is having a great vogue.
noun
- the popular style at a specified time (esp in the phrase in vogue)
- a period of general or popular usage or favourthe vogue for such dances is now over
adjective
- (usually prenominal) popular or fashionablea vogue word
1570s, the vogue, “leading place in popularity, greatest success or acceptance,” from Middle French vogue “fashion, success, drift, swaying motion (of a boat)” literally “a rowing,” from Old French voguer “to row, sway, set sail,” probably from Old Low German *wogon, variant of wagon “float, fluctuate,” literally “to balance oneself” (see weigh). Apparently the notion is of being “borne along on the waves of fashion.” Italian vogare also probably is borrowed from Germanic. Phrase in vogue “having a prominent place in popular fashion” first recorded 1643. The fashion magazine began publication in 1892.