haute

adj
/oʊt/US/əʊt/UK

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French, extracted from terms such as haute cuisine and haute couture.

Definitions

  1. Obsolete spelling of haut and haught (“high

    Obsolete spelling of haut and haught (“high; haughty”).

  2. high (especially in terms of fashion, cookery or anything considered to be typically…

    high (especially in terms of fashion, cookery or anything considered to be typically French)

    • Monessons’s Oz, of course, was the ultimate new concept in Dallas dining: an exclusive, members-only restaurant/disco serving only the finest haute cuisine, wine, and liquor at very haute prices.
    • Over the last five years, Japanese photographer Shoichi Aoki documented these fashion mavens, who combine haute pieces with homemade accessories, and printed them in ...
    • In sum, the subject’s paternal family was of very haute black bourgeoisie origins, upper civil service, in Antigua.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for haute. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA