recherché
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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
A Downtown legend since the late ’60s, he kept the recherché hits coming before temporarily abandoning theater for film.
From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2018
There had to be a happier way to live, a comfort zone somewhere between recherché reductivism and A&E’s “Hoarders.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2018
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
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)