recherché
Example Sentences
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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
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
Meanwhile, Top Trumps left me able to reel off recherché facts and figures about Olympic athletes, second world war aircraft, footballers of the 70s and diesel locomotives.
From The Guardian • Dec. 23, 2017
The best-known tune from “Gaucho,” Steely Dan’s last album before a long hiatus, was also the most spirited — and one of the least harmonically recherché.
From New York Times • Sep. 4, 2017
We have now got the kitchen into a great state of perfection, so that within ten minutes of his return a recherché repast was on the table.
From Three in Norway by Two of Them by Clutterbuck, Walter J.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.