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vogue word in American Englishnouna word or term that is fashionable for a time Examples of 'vogue word' in a sentencevogue word The vogue word for this is psychedelic music.And if only the question didn't matter so much, so disproportionately, to take a vogue word, to so many people.Fowler gives several categories of vogue word, including words that are 'taken up merely as novel variants on their predecessors'.It's a vogue word, and a linguistic fad in one decade will read oddly or embarrassingly in another.Nostalgia became a vogue word to mean any yearning, especially for the past and when tinged with tenderness and sadness.Incidentally, 'following' when used as a preposition is also a vogue word and should be avoided.These are all clichés that began as vogue words and phrases. |