soignée

Example Sentences

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By most accounts, Aldo and even Paolo, not simply Maurizio and Rodolfo, were magnetic figures whose carriage reflected the soignée substance of what they were selling — and, indeed, helped sell it.

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2021

With winged eyeliner out to there, Sandie’s got all the swaggering confidence that Ellie doesn’t, and stepping into her perfectly soignée shoes for an evening is powerfully intoxicating, until Sandie’s ultra-cool existence becomes a nightmare.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 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

She was a beauty under the Empire, and her feet are so small, she is just as soignée as if she was young, and so vain and human.

From The Visits of Elizabeth by Glyn, Elinor