recherche ruh-sher-SHAY, adjective:
1. Uncommon; exotic; rare.
2. Exquisite; choice.
3. Excessively refined; affected.
4. Pretentious; overblown.
Recherche comes from French, from rechercher, “to seek out,” from re- + chercher, “to look for, to seek.”
chichi SHEE-shee, adjective:
Affectedly elegant.
noun
1. Showy stylishness
2. A person with such quality.
From French of the same.
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