haute

[ oht ]

adjective

1. high-class or high-toned; fancy:

   an haute restaurant that attracts a monied crowd.

2. high; elevated; upper.

Word History and Origins

Origin of haute¹

1780–90; generalized from haute couture, haute cuisine, etc.; < French, feminine of haut literally, high; haughty

Example Sentences

At a Chain event, which has taken place in New York and L.A., and often at one-off pop-ups at its buzzy headquarters in Virgil Village, you enter a fantasy world where fast food is haute cuisine.

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Students at the Terre Haute, Ind., elementary school where Goodall worked for 23 years encouraged him to audition for “AGT.”

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Visually, the show, which is having its world premiere at La Jolla Playhouse, is a feast of pastel colors, aerial thrills, painterly projections and costumes that combine the bawdy imagination of Folies Bergère with the futuristic wit of today’s haute couture.

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I’m tired of streetwear to be honest, and this is really haute couture level.

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French fashion house Dior, which designed several of the looks worn by the ceremony headliners, also took fans behind the scenes for the making of Dion’s haute couture gown by creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri.

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