voguevogue /vəʊɡ $ voʊɡ/ noun [countable usually singular, uncountable] 
the vogue for large families in the pre-war yearsbe in vogue/be the vogue Short skirts are very much in vogue just now. Suntanning first came into vogue in the mid-1930s.
WORD ORIGINvogue
Origin:
1500-1600 French ‘act of rowing, course, fashion’, from Old Italian voga, from vogare ‘to row’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- a vogue for the paintings of Claude Lorraine
- People's fondness for wearing black and other dark colours was a vogue I never really liked.
- If you want to control the vogue for greed and exploitation, then start using local suppliers.
- In the 1870s, after all, when plumpness was in vogue, physicians had encouraged people to gain weight.
THESAURUS
noun [countable, uncountable] a style of clothes, hair, behaviour etc that is fashionable. Fashion is also used as an uncountable noun, when talking about all of these styles in general: · the latest fashions from Donna Karan· changing fashions in popular music· I’m not interested in fashion.
noun [singular, uncountable] if there is a vogue forsomething, or it is in vogue, it is fashionable. Vogue sounds more formal and typical of the language that more educated speakers use than fashion: · the current vogue for realistic animated films· There was a vogue for cream furniture in the 1920s.· His pictures are very much in vogue these days.
noun [countable] a way of doing something or a way of thinking that is becoming fashionable or popular: · The magazine focuses on the latest trends in contemporary design.· The trend is for people to wait longer to marry and have children.
noun [countable] informal a fashion, activity, type of music etc that suddenly becomes very popular, but only remains popular for a short time – often used about things that you think are rather silly: · a new fitness craze· the current fad for bare white walls and uncomfortable-looking metal furniture· I’m sure it’s just a passing fad (=something that will soon stop being fashionable).· fad diets
formal used when saying that something is very popular and fashionable for a short time: · The game was all the rage at her school.
Longman Language Activatorfashionable activity, product, style etc a style of clothes, hair, behaviour etc that is fashionable: latest fashion (=the newest styles of clothes): · I always find it hard to keep up with the latest fashions.fashion in clothes/music etc: · changing fashions in popular musicfashion for doing something: · Who started this fashion for wearing old army clothes?
a way of doing something or a way of thinking that is becoming fashionable: · A lot of the students here don't think for themselves, they just follow the latest trends.trend in: · Today we'll be examining the latest trends in kitchen design
a fashion, activity, type of music etc that suddenly becomes very popular, but only remains popular for a short time: · A new fitness craze from Australia is rapidly catching on.· To no one's surprise, the macarena proved to be a short-lived fad.
the most fashionable and newest thing to do, wear, or have: · The latest thing is to wear only white clothes.· No matter how expensive, he always has to do the latest thing.the latest thing in: · I can remember when eight-track tapes were the latest thing in music.
a style of music, clothes, art etc that is fashionable with a particular group of people: · People's fondness for wearing black and other dark colours was a vogue I never really liked.· a vogue for the paintings of Claude Lorraine
to be fashionable if clothes, music, places, or activities are in fashion , they are fashionable and popular with many people at the present time: · Latin music is very much in fashion.· Surprisingly, flared trousers are in fashion again.· Country cottage furniture has been in fashion for a long time now.
to be fashionable: · I thought it looked ugly, but Iris said white suits were the fashion so I tried it on.be the fashion among somebody: · Wearing coats hanging off one shoulder is the fashion among schoolchildren at the moment.
informal to be the most recent and most popular fashion now: · When I was growing up, the video game "Pong" was the latest thing.· I know cigars are the in thing, but you'll never see me smoke one.be the latest thing in something: · Herbert's house looks like a factory , but it's the latest thing in modern architecture.be the in thing to do: · Having a holiday in Ibiza seems to be the in thing to do at the moment.
informal to be fashionable at the present time: · Long skirts are in at the moment.
if something, especially an activity, is all the rage , it is very fashionable, and popular with a lot of people, especially for a short time: · Before the war, ragtime was all the rage in the dancehalls.· Buying a cabin in the mountains may be all the rage at the moment, but is it really a sound investment?
if something, especially a style of music, decoration, art etc, is in vogue , it is fashionable at that time with a particular group of people: · Do you remember when New Wave music was in vogue?· His photographs, stark and sometimes shocking, are very much in vogue with young intellectuals.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Short skirts are very much in vogue just now. Suntanning first came into vogue in the mid-1930s.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB
a popular and fashionable style, activity, method etc SYN fashionvogue for Short skirts are very much in vogue just now. Suntanning first came into vogue in the mid-1930s.· One tonic that came into vogue was even worse: strychnine.· Luck had it that liberalism, or neo-liberalism, has since come into vogue.· It may be that with the present trend towards measurement numerical classifications will come back into vogue.· Scarlet talons came into vogue with suntanning, although they were sill considered rather racy until the mid-1930s.· Before cyanide fishing came into vogue, Hong Kong fleets had often used dynamite to blow fish out of the water.
· During the Eighties, it has been the Thatcher-Reagan model which has enjoyed the higher global vogue.· It is almost 30 years since central planning enjoyed a vogue in Britain.· This blend of Old-Testament-inspired genealogy with legendary classical origins enjoyed a new vogue in the eclectic learned circles of the period.
the vogue for large families in the pre-war yearsbe in vogue/be the vogue Short skirts are very much in vogue just now. Suntanning first came into vogue in the mid-1930s.