soignée

Example Sentences

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It’s a soignée list of precedents, right down to Chamberlain’s parachute-covered, cut-foam couches.

From New York Times • May 27, 2021

Not simply as Covent Garden flower girl to lady of Ascot: That does, of course, occur, in the remarkable metamorphosis Ambrose affects and the soignée gowns Catherine Zuber designs for her.

From Washington Post • Apr. 19, 2018

She was a soignée matron, game for some electric color or the flash of a gam, but nothing inappropriate to her age or status.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 1, 2015

The most memorable parts of "The Jackie Look" weren't when she was elucidating the way Onassis has come to serve our cathartic need for a soignée image of catastrophe and survival.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 23, 2015

Our inn, the Hôtel du Midi, is an excellent one; the apartments good, and the cuisine soignée.

From The Idler in France by Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of