Meaning & use
recherche
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Rare, exotic, or carefully chosen, often to the point of being obscure or overly refined.
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The chef prepared a recherche tasting menu featuring ingredients few diners had heard of.
Her recherche vocabulary sometimes left her audience baffled.
A note on using this word
Borrowed directly from French 'recherché,' the past participle of 'rechercher,' 'to search out'; in English it can carry a slightly critical tone implying affectation.
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