recherché

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Pronunciation

/rəˈʃɛəʃeɪ/(ruh-SHAIR-shay)

Part of speech

adjectiveformal

Chinese

精心挑选的；冷僻的

Definition

Rare, exotic, or obscure; carefully chosen or exquisite.

Word family

  • (no common derivatives)

Collocations

  • recherché taste
  • recherché reference
  • recherché vocabulary
  • recherché cuisine

Examples

  1. 1.The restaurant's menu featured recherché ingredients like black garlic and yuzu kosho. (exotic, rare)
  2. 2.His essays were full of recherché allusions that only fellow scholars could appreciate. (obscure, esoteric)

Synonyms

  • exotic/ɪɡˈzɒtɪk/— unusual, foreign
  • esoteric/ˌɛsəˈtɛrɪk/— understood by few
  • rarefied/ˈrɛərɪfaɪd/— exclusive, refined

Etymology

from French "recherché" = carefully sought out — "rechercher" = to search again — re- (again) + chercher (to search) — sought out with great care