Definition of "top-drawer" [top-drawer]

• Of the highest importance, rank, privilege, or merit. (adjective)

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• "Cassels, 18, is one of an increasing number of high school graduates who pass over top-drawer public and private universities to become honor students at community colleges."
• "The mere experience of hearing them sing with such mastery made up for a lack of tenderness or subtlety, which was plentifully supplied by the top-drawer supporting cast of Brangäne (Anne Sofie von Otter, intelligent and vigilant), the wise, wronged King Marke (Matthew Best) and, most affecting of all, Jukka Rasilainen as Kurwenal, troubled, faithful and rigid with grief."
• "It's an awkward piece to bring off at the best of times, with a distinct lack of top-drawer Tchaikovskyan tunes that really make the most of the possibilities of the six-part string textures."