单词 | recherche |
释义 | recherche (once / 24122 pages) adj Something that's recherche is very fancy, and maybe a little bit rare. Taking an elegant ocean liner from New York to France would be a recherche way to travel. Language can be recherche, when it's especially complicated. If you're writing a story and instead of "She said," you write "She opined" or "She emoted," your style is fairly recherche. And if everyone at a party is wearing jeans, but you wear a tuxedo, your outfit is recherche. In French, recherché means "carefully sought out," from chercher, "to search." WORD FAMILYrecherche: rechercher USAGE EXAMPLESFor all their recherché qualities, Mr. Renoird and his partner are decidedly warm and friendly. New York Times(Jun 19, 2015) The poems are full of allusions, recherché terms, and baroque devices. The New Yorker(Jun 01, 2015) But he’s equally at home with more recherché films as well. New York Times(May 18, 2015) adj lavishly elegant and refined Syn exquisite elegant refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style |
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