Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. Exquisite; lavishly elegant and refined.
- adj. Exotic or obscure.
Examples
“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.”
“Participation by Imperial and Royal Government officials in the examinations ( 'recherche' in contrast with 'enquête judiciaire').”
“Blissful, unquestionably -- we know that well enough but would it be 'distingue,' would it be 'recherche' without him?”
The Curious Republic of Gondour, and Other Whimsical Sketches
“They were the best we had found any where, and the most 'recherche'.”
“recherche' is, but that is what these donkeys were, anyhow.”
“There are vivid adaptations from Pasternak, there are varied narratives such as "High Table" and "Rashomon", but the book is dominated by two major elegiac sequences – "I Remember my Mother Dying" and "A la recherche du temps perdu" the latter about the death of a former lover from Aids.”
“Français · Global Voices: Nos nouvelles stratégies de recherche de fonds”
Global Voices in English » Global Voices develops alternative revenue streams
“Français · Japon: La pêche à la baleine, recherche scientifique ou activité commerciale?”
Global Voices in English » Japan: Whaling. Scientific research or commercial hunting?
“In a paper appearing this month in GUT, Trak-Smayra and colleagues from the Centre de recherche Biomédical Bichat Beaujon, Paris, France, used SELDI-TOF ProteinChip profiling to detect fatty liver disease in eighty obese non-alcoholic patient candidates for bariatric surgery and who were devoid of hepatitis B and C infection.”
Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » Proteomic Profiling to Detect Fatty Liver Disease
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘recherche’.
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250 Cherry-Picked Words
Juicy words for the intermediate and advanced speller
consomme, miniaceous, nankeen, smaragdine, stramineous, vitellary, allemande, beguine, bransle, charabanc, margaritaceous, chaconne and 238 more...
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poe
meerschaum, procrustean, arrant, recherche, non distributio m...
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Vega's Logophile Dictionary
Words I've heard/read in use, words being learnt, words that I want to eventually use in everyday language, words that are high-brow and elitist and scholarly and obscure, words that display the wo...
parsimonious, torpor, recalcitrant, plebeian, vitriol, gumption, augur, aestival, celerity, diaphanous, farrago, nonpareil and 287 more...
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Chennessy's Words
philistine, messianic, dyad, cult, bourgeois, blot, ploy, polyglot, lingua franca, cumbersome, lumber, petit-bourgeois and 446 more...
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Quirkstyle
Fashion elegance, oddities, styles, and cool garments.
tatterdemalion, froufrou, gingham, argyle, corset, hoop skirt, pantaloons, bloomers, jaunty, seersucker, twill, ganguro and 126 more...
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The Innocents Abroad
Words rounded up while reading The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain.
rakish, excursionist, bowelless, pilgrimizing, melodeon, woebegone, abaft, sextant, veriest, behindhand, stanchion, avast and 188 more...
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From Book - SAT & College Dictionary ...
ebb, exotic, immure, abeyance, panegyric, debonair, protege, dissipate, frantic, penitent, abject, edify and 871 more...
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Monovocalics
Words that have only one of the vowels. On this list I include only words with at least three vowels. When I first started the list, if a word had several forms, I generally listed only the one wit...
syzygy, mirific, cumulus, homolog, monocot, bedewed, jezebel, referee, bikini, minikin, locomotor, terebenthene and 2359 more...
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harveythechainsaw's Words
lickspittle, syllogism, redounds, boffo, maw, flibbertigibbet, elan, phalanx, plinth, wonk, janjaweed, madreporic and 142 more...
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hagendas 2008
mise-en-scene, occultation, lodestone, obdurate, remontoire, filigree, insensate, carapace, vicissitude, verdigris, indivuation, intercalate and 224 more...
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west ham fool
a list
corollary, pragmatic, desultory, insouciance, hubris, eponymous, paradox, intermezzo, calumny, anodyne, illitterati, subjective and 98 more...
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Dictionary.com Words of the Days of 2001
1999 · 2000 · 2001 · 2002 · 2003 · 2004 · 2005 · 2006 · 2007 · 2008
acclimate, stentorian, expeditious, proselytize, equable, sacrosanct, indefatigable, gravid, hyperbole, funereal, flibbertigibbet, vet and 353 more...
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the favourites
These are words that I like; either because they sound amazing, mean pretty things, seem particularly suited to their assigned definition, or just have good mouthfeel. The best ones embody some com...
tatterdemalion, alpenglow, dapple, defenestrate, wacky, lissom, lithe, whisper, madcap, magniloquent, whimsy, sallow and 208 more...
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vocab
hard word word 4 strong vocab
ostracize, importune, impute, scintillate, mulct, deprecate, procrastinate, rusticate, vegetate, expiate, emulate, gesticulate and 345 more...
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esperanca's Words
portmanteau, vituperative, quixotic, quotidian, pandemonium, vexatious, milieu, moue, cantankerous, flibbertigibet, dalliance, bucolic and 190 more...
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annajane's Words
slumgullion, crivens, fob, albedo, heuristic, awkward, hirsute, wrath, aphasia, logorrhea, lachrymose, cohort and 52 more...
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