recherché
Example Sentences
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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
“Bowlaway” is a large and caterwauling sort of opera buffa, packed with outsize characters — some with recherché talents — and wild, often dreamlike events.
From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2019
Inside, the conversation's covering some pretty recherché territory, but, hey, upstairs, in the covered area the tapes start rolling.
From The Guardian • May 29, 2012
And, when I entertain at home, I hardly ever fail to please, The "upper tens" alone may come To join in my "recherché" teas; I am a King in ev'ry sense At my Official Residence.
From Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes by Graham, Harry