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A vogue is a fashion — a way of dressing, talking, cooking, , or doing almost anything that many people suddenly like at the same time. The word carries the feeling that it will not last: a vogue comes, everybody follows it, and then it passes. You will meet it most often inside two fixed phrases, and honestly these are how the word survives in modern English: - **in vogue** = fashionable right now. 'Short hair is in vogue again.' - **a vogue for something** = a period when lots of people want that thing. 'There was a vogue for Korean a few years ago.' It is slightly formal and slightly literary. A fashion magazine or a newspaper writer will use it; a friend telling you about a new coffee shop will just say 'trendy' or 'popular right now'. One useful difference: 'fashion' is often about clothes specifically, but 'vogue' is comfortable with ideas, words, methods, and hobbies too. Scholars talk about a vogue for a certain theory. And of course Vogue is also the name of the world's most famous fashion magazine, which is exactly why the word feels stylish to people who have never used it in a sentence.
風尚、流行（尤其指一陣子的風潮）；in vogue = 正流行、當紅
組成來自法文 vogue，原意是「（船的）航行、順利前進」，來自 voguer「划船」。更早來自古薩克遜語 wogōn「搖動、起伏」，同源於「移動、運送」的印歐字根 *weǵʰ-。所以「流行」原本的畫面是：像一艘船被浪推著往前走。
原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Voguename詞源 1/vəʊɡ/
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A fashion and lifestyle magazine.
Voguename詞源 2/vəʊɡ/
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A hamlet in St Day parish, east of Redruth, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW7242).
voguenoun/vəʊɡ/
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The prevailing fashion or style.
- Miniskirts were the vogue in the '60s.
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Popularity or a current craze.
- Hula hoops are no longer in vogue.
- 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.
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dancedancinghobbiesA highly stylized modern dance that evolved out of the Harlem ballroom scene in the 1960s.
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A cigarette.
- Will you take a varder at the cartz on the feely-omi in the naf strides: the one with the bona blue ogles polarying the omi-palone with a vogue on and a cod sheitel.
vogueverb/vəʊɡ/
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To dance in the vogue dance style.
- Tonight’s sumptuous two-hour gig butts up hard against the curfew. Minutes often go by during which Murphy dispenses entirely with the business of singing pop songs. She’ll vogue, or reanimate some acid house moves, letting the beat take over.
- “Come on, this is boring!” “Okay... little man, bring your best.” (crowd cheering, clamoring) “Okay, looks like the little guy's voguing now. Whoa!”
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To light a cigarette for (someone).
- Vogue me up.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。