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
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
On my partial recovery, they insisted on my taking up my abode at their mansion at Hampstead; and owing to their kind attentions and recherché fare, I soon recovered my strength.
From The Thistle and the Cedar of Lebanon by Risk Allah, Habeeb
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.