recherché🔊

Sought out and chosen with care; choice; exquisite.

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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.

Salman Rushdie, Fury (2001)

Exotic; of rare quality, elegance, attractiveness, etc.

(by extension) Precious, pretentious, affected.

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