variants or less commonly haut
: fashionable, high-class
haute interior decorators
a store filled with haute kitsch

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Or, Kylie Jenner’s haute bride of Frankenstein moment care of Jean Paul Gaultier in 2022. Vogue, 22 Oct. 2024 Jet, a flat-black, opaque gemstone derived from wood that has experienced extreme compression over millions of years, was the haute stone throughout the Victorian era, a time when fashion and jewelry deftly signaled a person’s social status, financial wealth and even emotional state. Emili Vesilind, CNN, 17 Sep. 2024 Mason’s Retreat is the name of this farm and ancestral seat, tumbledown in haute WASP fashion, a place of brackish marsh air, oyster shells, and drawers jammed with mismatched cutlery. Chloe Schama, Vogue, 18 July 2024 Check them out in the Street Arts Graphics Collection! Shared Collections Bombs and the Bikini Atoll The haute beachwear known as the bikini was named after a string of islands turned into a nuclear wasteland by atomic bomb testing. JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for haute 

Word History

Etymology

French

First Known Use

1964, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of haute was in 1964

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“Haute.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/haute. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.

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