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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
high-class
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a high-class hotel
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He always stayed at a high-class hotel on trips abroad.
▪ He was a high-class horse and under strong driving came upsides, but the jockey was not bothered.
▪ He worked for high-class manufacturers, but by the time he was twenty-five he had started his own business.
▪ Real Tennis is a high-class game even older than the Long Room's most ancient inmate.
▪ Spring Street, just off Broadway, was fashionable, and no-one could describe Mrs Gutermann's as other than high-class.
▪ We're running a high-class operation here.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
high-class

1864, from high (adj.) + class (n.).

Wiktionary
high-class

a. Recognized for its quality.

WordNet
high-class

adj. pretentiously elegant; "a high-toned restaurant" [syn: high-toned]

Usage examples of "high-class".

Warlock, There was the time Scale had ordered him to drive over two hundred klicks to a tiny hamlet in the foothills of the Darks, The long-armed man had been told to stay put, sit in the land wag for as long as it took for Scale to conduct his business, ostensibly a visit to this real high-class cathouse the ville boasted.

To use a high-class, pedigree, proven bull to inseminate large numbers of cows for farmers who could never afford to own such an animal was and is a splendid idea.

Sparks and it turns out that this Sparks is very glad to see him when he learns that Fatso is to be Santa Claus because it seems that Sparks always considers it most undignified for a high-class butler to go around being Santa Claus with pillows stuffed down his pants.

Esch and Hotten Sonntag had volunteered, both for the Air Force, but later on, just like me who kept hesitating whether to go into the Navy or not, they were sent to the Panzer Grenadiers, a kind of high-class infantry.

I have recently confirmed two very successful matches involving full-spectrum prisms and very high-class talents.

Urban expansion also extended to schools for the children of senior Dynasty members, stores promoting the most expensive designer items to be found in the Commonwealth, and a few high-class low-morals leisure clubs whose existence was a constant source of semi-envious rumor on the tackier unisphere gossip shows.

Company advertise themselves as brokers and dealers in high-class Western securities, and they offer stock in that Sunset Irrigation Company.

There are only a couple of agencies in New Seattle that handle high-class talents and full-spectrum prisms.

The standard syn-psych test used with high-class talents such as yourself.

The high-class brahmins, all in baggy trousers cut from gold brocade, white tunics and tall white turbans, sat closest to the two thrones, while behind them stood the military officers, Indian and European, who were perspiring in their finest uniforms.

Simms approached the issue circuitously, pointing out the twin necessities of maintaining a high-class clientele, for he would settle for nothing less, by God, and also making a profit, which was goddamn hard for a Godfearing man to do in these times.

She also said she had three senators, five congressmen, two ex-congressmen, a dozen flag officers from all services, and three high-class hookers that buy stuff from her on a regular basis.

Most had attached themselves to Scale's troop of marauders, and the long-armed man was dead certain that was entirely because of the Warlock, There was the time Scale had ordered him to drive over two hundred klicks to a tiny hamlet in the foothills of the Darks, The long-armed man had been told to stay put, sit in the land wag for as long as it took for Scale to conduct his business, ostensibly a visit to this real high-class cathouse the ville boasted.

Yet, if Albert did exist, he probably commanded a whole army of himselves, using high-class grays and ebonies to track down the villain who destroyed my .

Personally, I consider Ambrose's love affairs a great bore but as the Canary Club is a very high-class gaff where the food department is really above par, I am pleased to go with him.