Brewer's: Vogue

(1 syl.). A French word. “In vogue” means in repute, in the fashion. The verb voguer means to sail or move forwards. Hence the idea of sailing with the tide.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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