soignée

Example Sentences

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With winged eyeliner out to there, Sandie’s got all the swaggering confidence that Ellie doesn’t, and stepping into her perfectly soignée shoes for an evening is powerfully intoxicating, until Sandie’s ultra-cool existence becomes a nightmare.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2021

It’s a soignée list of precedents, right down to Chamberlain’s parachute-covered, cut-foam couches.

From New York Times • May 27, 2021

In an earlier era, dancers were expected to visit gambling tables between shows, in soignée attire, and mingle with customers.

From Washington Post • Dec. 4, 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

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 Nelson, G. Patrick