soignée
Example Sentences
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Not simply as Covent Garden flower girl to lady of Ascot: That does, of course, occur, in the remarkable metamorphosis Ambrose affects and the soignée gowns Catherine Zuber designs for her.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 19, 2018
She was a soignée matron, game for some electric color or the flash of a gam, but nothing inappropriate to her age or status.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 1, 2015
The most memorable parts of "The Jackie Look" weren't when she was elucidating the way Onassis has come to serve our cathartic need for a soignée image of catastrophe and survival.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 23, 2015
Nothing says, “Welcome! Look how charming, soignée, and free from existential angst this house is!” quite like a mound of fruit in the center of your dining table.
From Slate ● Mar. 26, 2015
Mais oui, il l'a soignée jusqu'à ce qu'elle was been dead; he l'a enterrée—place in de terre—airth, an' moi he haf place chez un farmyer à Mo'real.
From Flamsted quarries by G. Patrick Nelson
