voguer

From vogue +‎ -er.

voguer (plural voguers)

1. One who dances in the vogue style.
   • 2008 March 19, Claudia La Rocco, “Voguers Take Back the Night and the Dance Stage”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     The tall, elegant Mr. Burnett unfurled his limbs in the precise yet fluid phrasing employed by voguers.

Possibly from Italian vogare, itself perhaps from Latin vocāre, possibly related to Ancient Greek βαυκάλη (baukálē, “crib”), or alternatively possibly of Germanic origin (related to vogue), from Proto-Germanic *wagōną (“to sway, fluctuate”).

• IPA^(key): /vɔ.ɡe/

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voguer

1. (intransitive) to travel through the water
   1. (of a ship, or goods on a ship) to sail
      • 1820, Alphonse de Lamartine, “Le Lac”, in Méditations poétiques:

        Un soir, t’en souvient-il ? nous voguions en silence ; / On n’entendait au loin, sur l’onde et sous les cieux, / Que le bruit des rameurs qui frappaient en cadence / Tes flots harmonieux.

        Recall the evening we sailed out in silence? / On waves beneath the skies, afar and wide, / Naught but the rowers' rhythmic oars we heard / Stroking your tuneful tide.

   2. (of an animal) to swim
   3. (of rowers) to row

      Synonym: ramer

2. (intransitive, figurative) to wander

• vogue la galère
• vogueur

• “voguer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012