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Meanings of recherche in English

Lavishly elegant and refined.

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Examples for "exquisite"
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She commented on the exquisite parquet floors that had come from Europe.
The house
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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
5
His delightful images present every dial, button and screen in exquisite detail.
Wired
Usage of recherche in English
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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...
3
Washington is the hot-bed of gayety, and general headquarters for the recherche business.
Remarks
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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
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But the upper sort had a really recherche dinner.
Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I do not know what 'recherche' is, but that is what these donkeys were, anyhow.
The Innocents Abroad
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Might it be too recherche for best picture?
The Irish Times
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Blissful, unquestionably-weknow that well enough-butwould it be 'distingue,' would it be 'recherche' without him?
The Curious Republic of Gondour, and Other Whimsical Sketches
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They were very recherche, so it appears.
Chopin : the Man and His Music
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Her 2000 film Le Captive distilled sections of Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu with some success.
The Irish Times
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He says: "Trop de recherche fine et minutieuse n'est pas quelquefois sans pretention et san froideur."
Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Volume 2
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What can be more abject than the union of elaborate and recherche arrangements with an old and obvious point?
Alarms and Discursions
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She took her seat at the sumptuous table, whereon gold and silver shone, whereon everything recherche and magnificent was displayed.
Dora Thorne
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But when grown in the igneous soil around Beaujeau it provides a fruity, vivacious little vintage that is very recherche.
The Irish Times
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Yet, after all, I don't require dinners superfluous in quantity: only let what there is be first-rate in quality and recherche.
Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero
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