English

Proper noun

Vogue

1. A fashion and lifestyle magazine.

Derived terms

• Voguette

See also

• Vogue on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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

• voguer

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