distingué

distingué (comparative more distingué, superlative most distingué)

1. 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.

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distingué (feminine distinguée, masculine plural distingués, feminine plural distinguées)

1. past participle of distinguer

• “distingué”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.