Today's Word "recherche"
Published in Vocabulary
recherche \ruh-sher-SHAY\ (adjective) - 1 : Uncommon; exotic; rare. 2 : Exquisite; choice. 3 : Excessively refined; affected. 4 : Pretentious; overblown.
"She was mocking the pretensions of the cookery writer who insists on recherche ingredients not because of their qualities but their snob value." -- Angela Carter, "Shaking a Leg"
Recherche comes from French, from rechercher, "to seek out," from re- + chercher, "to look for, to seek."
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