Victory over scoundrel doesn't start trend (5)
I believe the answer is:
vogue
'trend' is the definition.
(I know that trend can be written as vogue)
'victory over scoundrel doesn't start' is the wordplay.
'victory over' becomes 'v' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'scoundrel' becomes 'rogue' (rogue is a kind of scoundrel).
'doesn't start' means to remove the first letter.
'rogue' with its initial letter taken away is 'ogue'.
'v'+'ogue'='VOGUE'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for vogue that I've seen before include "Fashion, trend" , "Mode, fashion" , "Popular taste at a given time" , "Popular fashion" , "Fashion, style" .)