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VOGUE WORD [1 record]

Record 1 1997-04-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary
DEF

A word or term that is fashionable for a time.

CONT

Not all 'new' words or new senses that have come into vogue are necessarily to be castigated on that account; we need the new sense of green (discussed below) just as we need fax and glasmost, to name new phenomena; indeed, vogue words are seldom new coinages.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général

Spanish

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