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recherché

[ruh-shair-shey, ruh-shair-shey, ruh-sher-shey] / rəˈʃɛər ʃeɪ, rə ʃɛərˈʃeɪ, rə ʃɛrˈʃeɪ /














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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

He quietly amassed a 5 percent stake before what Vanity Fair called “an Ali-Frazier fight for the recherché set” broke out.

From New York Times • Oct. 30, 2020

Some of these were fairly mainstream, like pink grapefruit and chamomile; others were more recherché, like aniseed and cassia; and one, Grains of Paradise, sounded like a gnarly and sardonic rock band from Hawaii.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 2, 2019

The table here is not recherché; but twelve months' campaigning have made me tolerably easy to please.

From John Bull, Junior or French as She is Traduced by O'Rell, Max