Crossword clues for recherche
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1722, from French recherché "carefully sought out," past participle of rechercher "to seek out" (12c.), from re-, here perhaps suggesting repeated activity (see re-) + chercher "to search," from Latin circare, in Late Latin "to wander hither and thither," from circus "circle" (see circus). Commonly used 19c. of food, styles, etc., to denote obscure excellence.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Exquisite; lavishly elegant and refined. 2 Exotic or obscure.
a. Sought out with care; choice. Hence: of rare quality, elegance, or attractiveness; peculiar and refined in kind — especially with an artificial or pretentious effect.
WordNet
adj. lavishly elegant and refined [syn: exquisite]
Wikipedia
Recherche ('Research') was a French language daily newspaper published from Chania, Greece. The newspaper was founded in 1898. As of 1937, its director was Antoine Bortolis and its editor Jean Bortolis. It served as the organ of the People's Party in the Chania region.
Usage examples of "recherche".
Rebenacq le regarda pour chercher dans ses yeux ce qui dictait cette observation: le respect des secrets de son frere, ou la hate de continuer la recherche du testament.
For Marcel Proust, whose fifteen-volume A la Recherche du Temps Perdu is a long-drawn-out struggle to recall and thus to transcend a painful past, the trigger which evokes the entire history is the taste of a madeleine cake.
Mars and all forward images were obscured by the four-sun glare of the engines, but Mahnmut passed the time by checking on video of the hull, the stars astern, and by rereading parts ofÀ la recherche du temps perdu and finding connections and disparities with his beloved Shakespearean sonnets.
True, the much talked of French artiste had not sung the promised ditties, but in the midst of the whirl and excitement of dances, of the inspiring tunes of the string band, the elaborate supper and recherche wines, no one had paid much heed to this change in the programme of entertainments.
Stores, dealerships, galleries struggled to satisfy the skyrocketing demand for ever more recherche produce: limited-edition olive oils, three-hundred-dollar corkscrews, customized Humvees, the latest anti-virus software, escort services featuring contortionists and twins, video installations, outsider art, featherlight shawls made from the chin-fluff of extinct mountain goats.
In 1791, the French Government, justly uneasy as to the fate of these two sloops, manned two large merchantmen, the Recherche and the Esperance, which left Brest the 28th of September under the command of Bruni d’Entrecasteaux.
She read Sartre, Recherche du temps perdu, and, for the first time in her life, War and Peace.
Price's office was on the first floor of the fashionable Recherché Apartments, and, as she expected, Constance noted a line of motor cars before it.
The girls got very skittish, climbing trees, and playing all sorts of pranks, giving me abundance of opportunities of seeing all their beauties, which were of the most recherché description.
Something a great deal more recherché and nasty,’ says Inspector Japp of a suspect’s sex-life, though probably all he means is ‘Not girls but boys’.