adjective

• Fashionably elegant or high-class.

  ‘The 630 guests did their part, contributing high energy and haute fashion to the rarefied party tableau.’

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  • ‘The occasion would have been a family car trip; the time, the late '50s - the haute Vegas era of feathery showgirls, sharpies in Sy Devore suits, and Sammy Davis Jr. at the Sands.’
  • ‘It's the ultimate haute Robinson Crusoe hideaway: a handful of thatched villas, constructed by local artisans without recourse to a single nail, incorporating driftwood and reclaimed tree trunks as wall supports and table legs.’
  • ‘What Paris is today is one of the most beautiful and civilized cities in the world, a stronghold of Old World haute bourgeois values and yet one of the most modern cities in Europe.’
  • ‘British luxury goods-makers want to go from haute to hip’