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recherche

recherche is the alternative form of recherché.

Meaning of recherché

Adjective

recherché (comparative more recherché, superlative most recherché)

  1. Sought out and chosen with care; choice; exquisite.
    • Mangostanes, the recherché fruit of the Straits Settlements, are found in the Islands of Mindanao and Sulu.1892, John Foreman, The Philippine Islands, page 375
  2. Exotic; of rare quality, elegance, attractiveness, etc.
  3. (broadly) Precious, pretentious, affected.
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:recherché.

Proper noun capitalized: Recherche

Recherche

  1. A locality in Huon Valley council area, southern Tasmania, Australia.

Forms of recherche

comparativemore recherche
superlativemost recherche

Questions about recherche

What does recherche mean?
Recherche means a locality in Huon Valley council area, southern Tasmania, Australia.
What is recherche the alternative form of?
Recherche is the alternative form of recherché.
What part of speech is recherche?
Recherche is a proper noun.

Words near recherche in the dictionary

  1. recheers
  2. rechelate
  3. rechelated
  4. rechelates
  5. rechelating
  6. recherche
  7. recherche du temps perdu
  8. recherché
  9. Reches
  10. rechew
  11. rechewed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: recherche (page history and authors); Recherche (page history and authors); recherché (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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