haute

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  1. adjective Fashionably elegant: "In Washington, haute gastronomy is at least as important as the national economy” (Ann L. Trebbe).

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  • There was an abundance of society of all kinds: Austrian, Italian, and what Ouida has called the haute Fuiverie . —  The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton Volume II
  • Then again there's an argument that Joe was going for the haute-klingon eye look —  Latest Articles
  • Chef Alain Giraud has a background in French haute cuisine perhaps unmatched by Los Angeles chefs, including decades in Parisian three-stars, a long stint as the chef de cuisine at Citrus and a term as the founding chef at Bastide. —  LA Weekly | Complete Issue
  • Black socks worn with sandals and peep-toe boots are hot, haute, hot, this fall. —  xml's Blinklist.com
  • Wasn't Prada herself spring's primary proponent of haute-y chic, with those glorious laces worked into chichi power clothes? —  The latest WWD Headlines
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  1. From such phrases as haute couture.
 

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