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
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
Inside, the conversation's covering some pretty recherché territory, but, hey, upstairs, in the covered area the tapes start rolling.
From The Guardian • May 29, 2012
His breakfast had been delayed; he was determined it should be recherché.
From Shirley by Brontë, Charlotte
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.