Recherche Definition

rə-shĕrshā
adjective
Sought out with care; rare; choice; uncommon.
Webster's New World
Exquisite; choice.
American Heritage
Having refinement or studied elegance.
Webster's New World
Too refined; too studied.
Webster's New World
Overrefined; forced.
American Heritage
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Origin of Recherche

  • French past participle of rechercher to research from Old French recercher research

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Borrowing from French recherché, more at French rechercher.

    From Wiktionary

Recherche Sentence Examples

  • Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time The performance A la recherche du temps perdu takes the code literally.

  • His Recherche de la verite, in 1674, was the baptism of the system into a theistic religion which borrowed its imagery from Augustine; it brought into prominence the metaphysical base which Louis Delaforge, Jacques Rohault and Regis had neither cared for nor understood.

  • Proust 's A la recherche du temps perdu published.

  • His writings against Malebranche were collected under the title Dissertations sur la recherche de la verite, 1693.

  • But there is no mention of Malebranche, whose Recherche de la verite had appeared three years before, nor of Arnauld, the illustrious rival of Malebranche.

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Words Starting With

RREREC

Words Ending With

EHECHE

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Words Starting With R and Ending With E

Starts With R & Ends With EStarts With RE & Ends With EStarts With R & Ends With HE

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9 Letter Words9 Letter Words Starting With R9 Letter Words Ending With E
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