Words are very powerful — so become empowered by enhancing your vocabulary! Check out this week’s word ‘Distingué’, a new entrant to the Oxford Dictionary

Distingué

Adjective (feminine distinguée pronounced same)

Definition: Having a distinguished manner or appearance

Examples:

• He was lean and distingué, with a small goatee.

• In the Wake Forest print, which is 25th in the series, Robert Macaire is the mendicant distingué, or ‘genteel beggar.’

• For some, the last distinguishes itself by a slim margin for its stylistic rightness and the distinguée Carmen of Teresa Berganza.

Origin

French, ‘distinguished’, from the verb distinguer.

Published in Dawn, Young World, March 5th, 2015