distingué
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He was also terribly distingué, standing more than six feet tall, nattily attired in tailored suits, ascots and polished shoes, his proper English accent softened to a buttery hush.
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2023
Though Lovick isn’t sure how rabbit-hat became a universal icon, I ventured a theory: The trick originated in the 1800s, when top hats symbolized wealth, power, a certain distingué.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 29, 2022
Mr. Freston’s office décor of dark blinds, hemp chairs and a surround-sound system loaded with Jamaican music and jazz promptly made way for Mr. Dauman’s sparse distingué furnishings of white, taupe and heavy wood.
From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2012
The club's aura is one of smart, highbrow competence, somewhere on the border of distingué and hipsterish.
From Slate ● Apr. 14, 2011
Dempster is a handsome man, and really distingué looking.
From Phemie Frost's Experiences by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
His shoe trees were casts that had been made from his feet, and he described himself as distingue.
From Time Magazine Archive
A bushy white beard he had, and silken hair on his head, tres distingue.
From Time Magazine Archive
I heard one lady remarking how 'reserved and distingue you were, and another," she added, with a flash of her ever-ready mirthfulness, "said you were 'deliciously homely.'
From Nature's Serial Story by Edward Payson Roe
She spoke French so perfectly that there might be some truth in this report, and it was agreed that her manners were fine, and her air distingue.
From Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
He was so distingue, carried himself so loftily, and yet was so gallantly condescending, and so inimitably fascinating.
From The Fatal Glove by Clara Augusta
