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Beth Cherry ___________ Sr. Creative Consultant EnFORM Technology 713.350.1860 -----Original Message----- From: Doctor Dictionary [mailto:doctor@dictionary.com ] Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 2:00 AM To: Dictionary.com Word of the Day Subject: recherche: Dictionary.com Word of the Day / - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - \ Free Poetry Contest- Enter Now! Win $10,000! http://by.advertising.com/1/c/62072/28339/100437/100437 <a href="http://by.advertising.com/1/c/62072/28339/100437/100437 "< AOL users click here </a< \ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - / Word of the Day for Wednesday October 10, 2001: recherche \ruh-sher-SHAY\, adjective: 1. Uncommon; exotic; rare. 2. Exquisite; choice. 3. Excessively refined; affected. 4. Pretentious; overblown. . . . recherche topics interesting only to university specialists. --Katharine Washburn and John F. Thornton, Dumbing Down [S]he was mocking the pretensions of the cookery writer who insists on recherche ingredients not because of their qualities but their snob value. --Angela Carter, Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings In recent years, Garber's appetite for the rigors of theory seems to have diminished. The books have kept coming, but the italics-heavy meditations and the recherche terminology have receded. --Zo? Heller, "House Arrest," [1]The New Republic, July 3, 2000 _________________________________________________________ Recherche comes from French, from rechercher, "to seek out," from re- + chercher, "to look for, to seek." References 1. http://www.thenewrepublic.com/ _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ You are currently subscribed to Dictionary.com Word of the Day as: beth.cherry@enform.com To subscribe to the list by email, send a blank message to: join-WordoftheDay@lists.lexico.com To unsubscribe via email, send a blank message to: leave-wordoftheday-399032I@lists.lexico.com Subscriptions can be turned on and off from the Web at http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/list/ Dictionary.com Word of the Day http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/ (C) 2001, Lexico LLC.
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