distingue
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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
Dans le centre de la plaque, on distingue avec peine un écusson. portant un coeur renversé et fiammé; au centre de l'écu, trois étoiles.
From Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present by Le Moine, J. M. (James MacPherson), Sir
Evidently unconscious of her husband's designs on Cecilia, she dismissed her briefly: "A very handsome young lady, though rather too blonde for her taste, and certainly with an air distingue."
From Kenelm Chillingly — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
Its pallor rather loaned an air of distingue, but—and the examination was being conducted for the benefit of a girl of twenty—it was the full-aged visage of a man of forty.
From Thoroughbreds by Fraser, William Alexander
