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adj. - Lavishly elegant and refined.

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  • Arthurs’ Law and Learning report between what he called recherche sublime and the recherche ponctuelle that he dismissed as the work of
  • On the whole, it was what the society reporter would call a recherche affair.
  • They were the best we had found any where, and the most 'recherche'.
  • Blissful, unquestionably -- we know that well enough but would it be 'distingue,' would it be 'recherche' without him?
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