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Meanings of exquisite in anglès

Intense or sharp.

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Lavishly elegant and refined.

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Examples for "recherche"
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Abstruse but weirdly accessible, recherche but pertinent, Peasant is quite an achievement.
The Guardian
2
Recollect that at this epoch I was quite recherche in my costume.
The Lock and Key Library: the Most Interesting Stories of All Na...
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Washington is the hot-bed of gayety, and general headquarters for the recherche business.
Remarks
4
They were the best we had found any where, and the most 'recherche'.
The Innocents Abroad
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On the whole, it was what the society reporter would call a recherche affair.
The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political

Delicately beautiful.

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Considered especially good or preferred.

Usage of exquisite in anglès
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She commented on the exquisite parquet floors that had come from Europe.
The house
2
It is brutal; it is monotonous; it is not at all exquisite.
Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 / France and the Net...
3
Nor is the exquisite Satsuma ware china; that too is a pottery.
The Story of Porcelain
4
The drawing-rooms were fitted with the greatest taste; the dinner was exquisite.
The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family
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His delightful images present every dial, button and screen in exquisite detail.
Wired
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She looked absolutely exquisite and elegant and made us South Africans proud.
The South African
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The dinners were exquisite; the best Parisian cooks could not beat Labourie.
Reminiscences of Captain Gronow
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In dress she should be exquisite, in conversation tactful, in manner sympathetic.
The Street Called Straight
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Back home in New York, I fought him an exquisite Osterizer blender.
The new yorker
10
There is an exquisite view of the latter in the British Museum.
The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, Bay State Monthly, Vo...
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We only hope Angie hasn't just enjoyed an exquisite date with Carlin.
News.com.au
12
Some fine and exquisite thing in himself leaped out in wild response.
The Emigrant Trail
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You can't help but marvel at the exquisite design, it's simply breathtaking.
Ebony
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Ultimately destructive, this state could seem like an exquisite advancement of perception.
The Irish Times
15
The coloring of the floor of the valley itself was particularly exquisite.
Out of Doors—California and Oregon
16
Tantalized by the dome's exquisite aesthetics, we returned a few days later.
Climbing Magazine
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