Definition of "soignee" []

• Showing elegance and sophistication. (adjective)

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• ""Byzantinely beautiful, independent in taste, she has a real sixth sense for clothes," Vogue purred over her in the January issue of 1939, adding in the same issue that she was "as soignee on skis as she is in her town clothes.""
• "She seems like a person who keeps trying to occupy a soignee position in the world and failing abysmally."
• "Slow shopping in Italy, France & Spain: investigating soignee, la bella figura and seny i rauxa"