distingue

comparative more distingue · superlative most distingue · alternative distingué · alternative distinguee

1. Fashionably distinguished or elegant; having an air of superiority.

   It was very noble, very distingue, to ruin one's self without knowing how!

   2001, Emile Gaboriau, Mystery of Oricval, page 158

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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

   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