distingué

A form of distingue — Fashionably distinguished or elegant; having an air of superiority.

Meanings

adjectivedistingué (comparative more distingué, superlative most distingué)

comparative more distingué · superlative most distingué

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of distingue.

    And she likes you so much, and thinks you so accomplished and distingué-looking, and was just as set as I was to have you for best man.

    1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, “In which Jim and I Take Different Ways”, in The Wrecker, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, […], →OCLC, page 179
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    By the time the blue dress was tried on, Madame Cie had, with the aid of a few pins, plaits, and a bow of blue ribbon, transformed the half-lace shawl into one of the smartest and distingué things imaginable; but when the bill came in at Christmas, for that five minutes' labor and distingué touch, she charged one pound eight.

    1873, Charles Reade, chapter IX, in A Simpleton: A Story of the Day […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, page 57
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