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recherché

[ruh-shair-shey, ruh-shair-shey, ruh-sher-shey] / rəˈʃɛər ʃeɪ, rə ʃɛərˈʃeɪ, rə ʃɛrˈʃeɪ /














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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

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

Alongside Le Corbusier, Gropius and Aalto are some much more recherché names – Gaston Eysselinck, anyone? – with a geographic sweep that, while possibly favouring Scandinavia and Switzerland, and neglecting eastern Europe, is wide.

From The Guardian • Apr. 21, 2013

There are some persons who receive whatever air of fashion and refinement they may have from their dress; others who impart to the coarsest material a grace that the most recherché costume fails to give.

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 5. May 1848 by Conrad, Robert Taylor




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