distingué
See also: distingue
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]distingué (comparative more distingué, superlative most distingué)
- Alternative spelling of distingue
- 1873, Charles Reade, chapter IX, in A Simpleton: A Story of the Day […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, page 57:
- 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.
- 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, “In which Jim and I Take Different Ways”, in The Wrecker, London, Paris: Cassell & Company, […], →OCLC, page 179:
- 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.
French
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Participle
[edit]distingué (feminine distinguée, masculine plural distingués, feminine plural distinguées)
Further reading
[edit]- “distingué”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.