Recherché

Mangostanes, the recherché fruit of the Straits Settlements, are found in the Islands of Mindanao and Sulu.

Stevens opened the door and proceeded to bring in a most recherché meal. An omelette was followed by quails and the very lightest things in soufflés.

Stores, dealerships, galleries struggled to satisfy the skyrocketing demand for ever more recherché 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.

After runway shows he [Jonathan Anderson] seems unfazed by the hectic scrum encircling him as he expounds on the various recherché influences behind the collection.

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