Vogue is the fashion of the moment. In vogue, the vogue for beards, come back into vogue.
It nearly always appears in the phrase in vogue, meaning currently fashionable, and it carries a hint that the thing will pass. The magazine took the name in 1892. The dance style called voguing was named from the poses in its photographs.
1nounvogueThe fashion of the moment.
“Wide-legged trousers from the seventies are back in vogue this year.”
vogue is a fashion.
French vogue meant the course of a rowing boat, from voguer, to row — hence the way things are going.
Proto-Indo-European
*weǵʰ-
Proto-Germanic
*wagōną — to sway, fluctuate
Old Saxon
wogōn — to sway, rock
Old French
vogue
Middle French
vogue — wave, course of success
English, today
vogue
Built from
1565. Borrowed from Middle French vogue (“wave, course of success”), from Old French vogue, 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”) (compare way). 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.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA