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haute

  [oht]
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–adjective
1. high-class or high-toned; fancy: an haute restaurant that attracts a monied crowd.
2. high; elevated; upper.
Also, haut [oh; especially before a vowel oht] .

Origin:
1780–90; generalized from haute couture, haute cuisine, etc.; < F, fem. of haut lit., high; see haughty
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haute   (ōt)   
adj.  Fashionably elegant: "In Washington, haute gastronomy is at least as important as the national economy" (Ann L. Trebbe).

[From such phrases as haute couture.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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