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recherché

[ruh-sher-shay, ruh-shair-shay] / rə ʃɛrˈʃeɪ, rəˈʃɛər ʃeɪ /














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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

They added that AICA-USA was “moribund and loyal to the time when art criticism and writing was a niche, privileged, recherché endeavor. We insist that it does not need to be this.”

From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2023

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

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

The Sultan still kept them in his palace, and, to celebrate their triumph, caused them to live upon a diet equally recherché, but consisting entirely of fish.

From Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction by John Davenport


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