recherché
Example Sentences
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How did a recherché, quasi-French dish leave the skillful hands of Thomas Jefferson’s enslaved cooks and wind up being popular grub for millions of today’s cooks and consumers, white and—emphatically—black?
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026
And restorative justice—once a fairly recherché concept on the left—has gotten widespread enough that the backlash is well under way.
From Slate • Nov. 15, 2021
Some of these were fairly mainstream, like pink grapefruit and chamomile; others were more recherché, like aniseed and cassia; and one, Grains of Paradise, sounded like a gnarly and sardonic rock band from Hawaii.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 2, 2019
A Downtown legend since the late ’60s, he kept the recherché hits coming before temporarily abandoning theater for film.
From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2018
Brunet speaks highly of the version of La Grange, which he seems to think is the best in the French language, and he says that of Le Blanc de Guillet is peu recherché.
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II by Dunlop, John
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.