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Webster 1913 Edition


Vogue

Vogue

,
Noun.
[F.
vogue
a rowing, vogue, fashion, It.
voga
, fr.
vogare
to row, to sail; probably fr. OHG.
wag[GREEK]n
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 [GREEK][GREEK] to be taught to their children in Westminster, in Eton, or in Winchester.
Burke.
Use may revive the obsoletest words,
And banish those that now are most in
vogue
.
Roscommon.
2.
Influence; power; sway.
[Obs.]
Strype.

Webster 1828 Edition


Vogue

VOGUE

,
Noun.
vig.
[The sense of vogue is way, or the going of the world.]
The way or fashion of people at any particular time; temporary mode, custom or practice; popular reception for the time. We say, a particular form of dress is now in vogue; an amusing writer is now in vogue; such opinions are now in vogue. The phrase, the vogue of the world, used by good writers formerly, is nearly or quite obsolete.
Use may revive the obsoletest word, and banish those that now are most in vogue.

Definition 2024


Vogue

Vogue

See also: vogue and vogué

English

Proper noun

Vogue

  1. A fashion and lifestyle magazine.

Derived terms

See also

vogue

vogue

See also: Vogue and vogué

English

Noun

vogue (plural vogues)

  1. the prevailing fashion or style
    Miniskirts were the vogue in the '60s.
  2. popularity or a current craze
    Hula hoops are no longer in vogue.
    • 1860, Albrecht Daniel Thaer, The Principles of Practical Agriculture
      The rotation of nine years with two fallowings, which was formerly so much in vogue, is now seldom or never to be met with; it was, however, productive of very fine crops of corn on tenacious soils which require a great deal of tillage.
  3. A highly stylized modern dance that evolved out of the Harlem ballroom scene in the 1960s.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

vogue (third-person singular simple present vogues, present participle voguing, simple past and past participle vogued)

  1. (intransitive) To dance in the vogue dance style.

French

Etymology

From Middle French vogue (wave, course of success), from Old French vogue (a rowing), from voguer (to row, sway, set sail), from Old Saxon wogōn (to sway, rock), var. of wagōn (to float, fluctuate), from Proto-Germanic *wagōną (to sway, fluctuate) and Proto-Germanic *wēgaz (water in motion), from Proto-Germanic *weganą (to move, carry, weigh), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- (to move, go, transport). Akin to Old Saxon wegan (to move), Old High German wegan (to move), Old English wegan (to move, carry, weigh), Old Norse vaga (to sway, fluctuate), Old English wagian (to sway, totter). More at wag. Alternatively the verb may be derived from Italian vogare (to row).

Noun

vogue f (plural vogues)

  1. vogue

Verb

vogue

  1. first-person singular present indicative of voguer
  2. third-person singular present indicative of voguer
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of voguer
  4. third-person singular present subjunctive of voguer
  5. second-person singular imperative of voguer