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The word "vogue" has been deployed in literature to indicate both fleeting popularity and the defining character of prevailing trends. In culinary texts, for example, it labels recipes and methods that remain fashionable over time, as seen with dishes described by Apicius ([1], [2], [3], [4]). Similarly, authors use it to comment on the current state of ideas or practices—from the acceptance of Darwinian adaptation in scientific discourse ([5]) to the shifting tastes in literature and art ([6], [7], [8]). In other contexts, "vogue" serves as a shorthand for practices or styles that are either lauded or critiqued in society, such as in discussions of social customs or even personal behavior ([9], [10], [11]). This multifaceted usage—as a marker of what is popular, what is past its prime ([12], [13]), or what embodies the spirit of an age ([14], [15])—demonstrates the term’s enduring versatility and its resonance at the intersection of culture, taste, and time.
  1. [4] V. Combinations of chopped nuts and pork still in vogue today; we use the green pistachios.
    — from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius
  2. [2] V. Ingenious method to skin tender root vegetables, still in vogue today.
    — from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius
  3. These sausages were in vogue before the Italians learned to make them; it was in Epirus, Greece, that they were highly developed.
    — from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius
  4. These books, or chapters, or fragments thereof, must have been in vogue long before they were collected and assembled in the present form.
    — from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius
  5. Adaptation and Accommodation The term adaptation came into vogue with Darwin's theory of the origin of the species by natural selection.
    — from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park
  6. No longer seeking nor caring that my name should be blasoned abroad on title-pages, I smiled to think that it had now another kind of vogue.
    — from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  7. “The Russian novel,” he wrote in 1887, “has now the vogue, and deserves to have it...
    — from Best Russian Short Stories
  8. “The Russian novel,” he wrote in 1887, “has now the vogue, and deserves to have it...
    — from Project Gutenberg Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
  9. Rebecca's wit, cleverness, and flippancy made her speedily the vogue in London among a certain class.
    — from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
  10. I have diverged at some length because the polite debasement of one's consort was a usage most in vogue among the samurai.
    — from Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe
  11. [21] The Governor sought to crush this spirit by methods much in vogue in the eighteenth century.
    — from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson
  12. This classification is gradually going out of vogue.
    — from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston
  13. VI Latin is just now not in vogue,
    — from Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
  14. A jeweler from Paris has been responsible for their present vogue in New York, and his clientele is only among the young and smart.
    — from Etiquette by Emily Post
  15. When eating in common became the vogue, table manners made their appearance and they have been waging an uphill struggle ever since.
    — from Etiquette by Emily Post

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