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
We shopped for organic produce and drank freshly squeezed juices and green smoothies decades before that was considered recherché.
From The Guardian • Apr. 18, 2020
The best-known tune from “Gaucho,” Steely Dan’s last album before a long hiatus, was also the most spirited — and one of the least harmonically recherché.
From New York Times • Sep. 4, 2017
As a rule, it is plain and wholesome, with no pretense of being recherché.
From All About Coffee by Ukers, William H. (William Harrison)