distingue

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

Marian could endure the air distingue, but could hardly swallow the fashionable young man, an expression which only conveyed to her mind the idea of Elliot Lyddell and his moustached friends.

From The Two Guardians or, Home in This World by Charlotte Mary Yonge

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 William Alexander Fraser

So much for the nuptials of Hortense and Charley; they were, as one paper pronounced them, "up to date and distingue."

From Lady Baltimore by Owen Wister

He was also terribly distingué, standing more than six feet tall, nattily attired in tailored suits, ascots and polished shoes, his proper English accent softened to a buttery hush.

From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2023

Though Lovick isn’t sure how rabbit-hat became a universal icon, I ventured a theory: The trick originated in the 1800s, when top hats symbolized wealth, power, a certain distingué.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 29, 2022

Mr. Freston’s office décor of dark blinds, hemp chairs and a surround-sound system loaded with Jamaican music and jazz promptly made way for Mr. Dauman’s sparse distingué furnishings of white, taupe and heavy wood.

From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2012

The club's aura is one of smart, highbrow competence, somewhere on the border of distingué and hipsterish.

From Slate ● Apr. 14, 2011

From the manner of her reply it was evident that she considered Pixie’s plainness a hundred times more distingué than Esmeralda’s beauty.

From More about Pixie by William H. C. Groome