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recherché

[ruh-shair-shey, ruh-shair-shey, ruh-sher-shey] / rəˈʃɛər ʃeɪ, rə ʃɛərˈʃeɪ, rə ʃɛrˈʃeɪ /














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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

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

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

Before the dressing-table, clothed in military garments of the most recherché description, is Taffy, while opposite to him, full of open admiration, stands Miss Chesney.

From Airy Fairy Lilian by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton (AKA Duchess)