vogue

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Here [in Russia] and now the vogue is our national interests, and let everybody else croak.

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  1. noun The prevailing fashion, practice, or style: Hoop skirts were once the vogue.
  2. noun Popular acceptance or favor; popularity: a party game no longer in vogue. See Synonyms at fashion.
  3. intransitive verb To dance by striking a series of rigid, stylized poses, evocative of fashion models during photograph shoots.

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  1. French, from Old French, probably from voguer, to sail, row, of Germanic origin; see wegh- in Indo-European roots. V., after the fashion magazine Vogue.
 

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