recherchéの英語

語源

Unadapted borrowing from French recherché; more at French rechercher. Doublet of ricercata.

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ɹəˌʃɛɹˈʃeɪ/
• ハイフネーション: re‧cher‧ché
• 韻: -eɪ

形容詞

recherché (comparative more recherché, superlative most recherché)

1. Sought out and chosen with care; choice; exquisite.
   • 1892, John Foreman, The Philippine Islands, page 375:

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

   • 1929, Agatha Christie, The Seven Dials Mystery:

     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.

   • 1960 February, R. K. Kirkland, “The Great Western and Brentford Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 79:

     The evening meal was "a repast of most recherché description," involving an endless series of toasts to almost everybody (with the notable exception of the other railway already serving Brentford, which came in for some hard knocks from various speakers).

   • 2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 3:

     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.

   • 2025 June 7, Carola Long, “Dior's playful new creative director”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 7:

     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.

2. Exotic; of rare quality, elegance, attractiveness, etc.
3. (by extension) Precious, pretentious, affected.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:recherché.

関連する語

• research

参考

• recherche du temps perdu