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‖ recherché, a.|rəʃɛrʃe|
[F., pa. pple. of rechercher, f. re- re- + chercher to seek, search.]
Carefully sought out; hence, extremely choice or rare. (Common in 19th c., esp. of meals, articles of food or drink, and dress.)
1722Richardson Statues Italy 121 This Excuse may be thought too partial, and Recherchè. 1776H. Walpole Corr. (1857) VI. 310 Sly as Montesquieu without being so recherché. 1823Byron Juan xiii. xxviii, At Henry's mansion, then,..Was Juan a recherché, welcome guest. 1838Longfellow in Life (1891) I. 298 A quiet recherché dinner at the Albion. 1883Century Mag. Aug. 608/1 A tasteful and récherché stock of frames and feathers and ribbons. 1939Joyce Finnegans Wake (1964) 149 The fiery goodmother Miss Fortune (who the lost time we had the pleasure we have had our little recherché brush with, what, Schott?). 1946A. Christie Come, tell me how you Live viii. 148 We have a very delicious and recherché lunch with the French Commandant. 1955Times 16 May 11/4 The more recherché of whose oratorios ought to be remembered for future eighteenth-century festivals. 1970I. Murdoch Fairly Honourable Defeat i. v. 55 The smell..was fresh and bitter and at the same time nauseating. Hilda wondered if it were not caused by some extremely recherché form of dry rot. 1978Dædalus Fall 4 Our perception of a lifetime has become increasingly recherché. |