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Definition vogue

Etymology

[1565] Borrowed from Middle French vogue (“wave, course of success”), from Old French vogue, from voguer (“to row, sway, set sail”), from Old Saxon wog?n (“to sway, rock”), var. of wag?n (“to float, fluctuate”), from Proto-Germanic *wag?n? (“to sway, fluctuate”) and Proto-Germanic *w?gaz (“water in motion”), from Proto-Germanic *wegan? (“to move, carry, weigh”), from Proto-Indo-European *we??- (“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”), German Woge (“wave”), Swedish våg (“wave”). More at wag.

The dance derives its name from Vogue magazine.

Noun

vogue (countable and uncountable, plural vogues)

1. The prevailing fashion or style.
2. Popularity or a current craze.
3. (dance) A highly stylized modern dance that evolved out of the Harlem ballroom scene in the 1960s.
4. (Polari) A cigarette.

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.
2. (Polari) To light a cigarette.

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