Declasse vs Recherche - What's the difference?
declasse | recherche |
Degraded from one's social class.
* 2007 , John Burrow, A History of Histories , Penguin 2009, p. 110:
Sought out with care; choice. Hence: of rare quality, elegance, or attractiveness; peculiar and refined in kind — especially with an artificial or pretentious effect.
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As an adjective declasse
is .As a noun recherche is
research, investigation.declasse
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Having married a plebian and so become déclassée , the daughter of a patrician was barred by the patrician matrons from sacrifices at the shrine of Patrician Chastity ‘in the cattle market by the round temple of Hercules’.