Word from Middle French for "wave"

Usage examples of vogue.

But if, as I would fain hope, and do partly believe, such ideas of national power as these are now out of vogue with British statesmen, then I think that such an amalgamation should receive all the support which Downing Street can give it.

Though the steel trap is much in vogue among white men and half-breeds, the deadfall, even to this day, is much preferred by the Indian.

Tom Owen and his singular assistant, Fogo, who combined the functions of prize-fighter and of poet, though, fortunately for himself, he could use his fists better than his pen, soon had the ring arranged according to the rules then in vogue.

In the course of that century the irresistible drift of Italian art feeling, retarded as it was by the supreme vogue of musicians trained in the northern schools, moved steadily toward its destination, the solo melody, yet the end was not reached till the madrigal had worked itself to its logical conclusion, to wit, a demonstration of its own inherent weakness.

Homoschutzstaffel, Queeny Felcher, leader of the foul SS army of gay black dancers, all expert warriors trained to black-belt standard in the deadly martial art of vogueing.

Thus, during a period when a new type of science fiction was coming into vogue and creating reputations for Heinlein, van Vogt, Sturgeon, and Asimov, Hamilton found himself labeled a specialist in blood-and-thunder juveniles.

The light beers in vogue to-day are less alcoholic, more lightly hopped, and more quickly brewed than the beers of the last generation, and in this respect are somewhat less stable and more likely to deteriorate than the latter were.

Whatever the troubadours and minnesingers may have done toward establishing a metrical melodic form of monophonic character was soon obliterated by the swift popularity of part singing and the immense vogue of the secular songs of the polyphonic composers.

All through, it was a game of cover-up and the most cooperative persons--Jane Verril for example-- might be leading anybody into eventual destruction through the cancel-off process that seemed so greatly in vogue.

The Saturday Evening Post and sometimes she and Iris pooled their allowance and bought a copy of Vogue.

She reached for a copy of Vogue, on her night table next to a bouquet of yellow chrysanthemums.

At the time of which we are writing the Court Capellmeister at Vienna was George Reutter, an inexhaustible composer of church music, whose works, now completely forgotten, once had a great vogue in all the choirs of the Imperial States.

To have been able to write on dry tablets of wood or barks of trees with the reed or brush, the then only ink-writing instruments in vogue would have necessitated the employment of lampblack suspended in a vehicle of thick gum, or in the form of a paint.

She was a comely, motherly woman, dressed in the primmest fashion in vogue twenty years before in England, among the class to which she belonged.

China and was introduced to Japan via the Ryukyu Islands, was coming into vogue among chanters.