Soigne

"I had been looking for exactly that kind of book that would teach me the subtleties - what Julia used to call the 'soigne' - of French cooking." ❋ Unknown (2010)

YANG: You know, I think she always has that -- she almost has -- there's a French word, I think, soigne, which is looking as if you're just elegant without ever having tried much. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Mona, doing her best, wore clean corduroy trousers and a white blouse pinned above the top button by her ultimate in soigne dressing, a small pearl brooch. ❋ Allie Dresser (2010)

Ahah j'suis allé faire des courses et ma mere est toujours etonnée des achats que je peux faire elle trouve que je me soigne et que j'me fais bien plaisir (coté bouffe) et ca la rassure. ❋ Pinku-tk (2009)

J'me soigne a coup de One OK Rock. j'ai recu TOUS leurs albums ce matin. ❋ Pinku-tk (2009)

So - I'll just say you don't have to murder anyone to read Cara's wonderful series - she handles the murders very well on her own - and solves them with utmost soigne. ❋ Unknown (2007)

D'ailleurs ya aucun plat surgelé chez moi j'cuisine et tout et tout. bref c vrai j'me soigne yaka voir le gueuleton que j'me suis fait ce soir MIAM MIAM ❋ Pinku-tk (2009)

Pinku: ca sert a rien ce sont mes pieds qu'il faut que je soigne j'ai la peau trop fine et quoique je fasse elle brule. ❋ Pinku-tk (2008)

But surely the urbane and soigne Obamas need some kind of change in White House cuisine, that's far different from the Kobe Steak and BBQ the Bush Family has favored. ❋ Eddie Gehman Kohan (2008)

J'me soigne consciencieusement meme si je trouve que toute cette tonne de medoc 'est stressante a prendre!!!! ❋ Pinku-tk (2008)

Ideally, I'd like to translate it into another language that would reduce the phrase to an irresistably soigne five or six syllables; Swedish, or Italian perhaps, probably has the perfect phrase for this expression. ❋ Lauren Cerand (2008)

Il faut vraiment que je soigne ca mais je ne sais pas comment soigner le fait que je sois super fragile des oreilles!! ❋ Pinku-tk (2008)

As Cecil Beaton, archdeacon of the soigne, once put it, "Those who work in fashion's sphere must expect the worst and should provide for an early demise." ❋ Unknown (2008)

EE: Rumors are rife that your exclusive organization - PHARTS - (membership open to only the most soigne) - is really a recruiting ground for a subversive committee to kidnap Jon Jordon and force him to read and review The Da Vinci Code. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Someone tell me please, was it because it wasn't the usual sleeked back look we consider soigne or was something else wrong with it? ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)