soignée
Example Sentences
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Not simply as Covent Garden flower girl to lady of Ascot: That does, of course, occur, in the remarkable metamorphosis Ambrose affects and the soignée gowns Catherine Zuber designs for her.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 19, 2018
At the Westchester in White Plains, the mall’s food court is being revamped with a promise of soignée atmosphere and food to please “discriminating palates.”
From New York Times ● May 27, 2016
She was a soignée matron, game for some electric color or the flash of a gam, but nothing inappropriate to her age or status.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 1, 2015
The most memorable parts of "The Jackie Look" weren't when she was elucidating the way Onassis has come to serve our cathartic need for a soignée image of catastrophe and survival.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 23, 2015
She was a beauty under the Empire, and her feet are so small, she is just as soignée as if she was young, and so vain and human.
From The Visits of Elizabeth by Elinor Glyn
