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Grammar : Adj, noun
Spell : vohg
Phonetic Transcription : voʊg

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Définition of vogue

Origin :
  • 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.
  • adj fashionable
  • noun fashion; current practice
Example sentences :
  • Circular windows at this period came into vogue in the gables of churches.
  • Extract from : « English Villages » by P. H. Ditchfield
  • My aunt then sang a song which was very much in vogue, and made a great success.
  • Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt
  • Although at every point she was far from vogue, she impressed me not unpleasantly.
  • Extract from : « Ruggles of Red Gap » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • I mean to say, I felt that I was vogue in the finest sense of the word.
  • Extract from : « Ruggles of Red Gap » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • When the philosophy of M. Descartes appeared, what a vogue it had!
  • Extract from : « The Phantom World » by Augustin Calmet
  • I must remark that the poets have greatly contributed to set all these imaginations in vogue.
  • Extract from : « The Phantom World » by Augustin Calmet
  • Brummelism—and I hate it—it is just Brummelism—is somewhat out of vogue at this time of day.
  • Extract from : « Tony Butler » by Charles James Lever
  • Mrs. Austen had known him when she was in shorter frocks than those then in vogue.
  • Extract from : « The Paliser case » by Edgar Saltus
  • The mysteries of Isis, not in vogue in Greece, but very popular in Rome.
  • Extract from : « Mysticism and its Results » by John Delafield
  • It was the vogue of the philosophers, and not their philosophy that made Catherine their friend.
  • Extract from : « Diderot and the Encyclopdists » by John Morley

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