soignée

Example Sentences

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By most accounts, Aldo and even Paolo, not simply Maurizio and Rodolfo, were magnetic figures whose carriage reflected the soignée substance of what they were selling — and, indeed, helped sell it.

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2021

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

She had a poise and grace of movement that were a delight to the eye, and she was soignée to the finger-tips.

From Juggernaut by Campbell, Alice