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
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
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.