distingué

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

His whole air is distingué in the best understanding of the term—that is to say, he would impress anyone at first sight with the idea of his being no ordinary man.

From As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century by Marian Gouverneur

A bushy white beard he had, and silken hair on his head, tres distingue.

From Time Magazine Archive

His shoe trees were casts that had been made from his feet, and he described himself as distingue.

From Time Magazine Archive

In height he was about my size, that is, six feet and half an inch; his cast of features singularly like mine, and extremely distingue.

From Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

I heard one lady remarking how 'reserved and distingue you were, and another," she added, with a flash of her ever-ready mirthfulness, "said you were 'deliciously homely.'

From Nature's Serial Story by Edward Payson Roe

He was dark and not very good-looking—not nearly so good-looking as Raymond—but there was something in his easy, self-assured manner that struck her as very distingue.

From Missy by Dana Gatlin