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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

Social goods come in many forms and we’ll have plenty of time to be surprised by some of the more recherché ones in the months ahead.

From The Guardian • Mar. 18, 2020

“Bowlaway” is a large and caterwauling sort of opera buffa, packed with outsize characters — some with recherché talents — and wild, often dreamlike events.

From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2019

Amatory poetry was transmitted from the Provençals to the Italians and Sicilians, among whom the language of the Troubadours had long been cultivated, and their songs imitated, but in style yet more affected and recherché.

From The Romance of Biography (Vol 1 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)