Definition of "distingue" adjective comparative more distingue , superlative most distingue
Fashionably distinguished or elegant ; having an air of superiority . quotations examples
Quotations 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, […], 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, […], page 179