| 释义 |
‖ raffiné, a. (n.)|rafine|
[Fr.]
Of manners or judgement: refined. Also as n., a person distinguished by the possession of refinement in manners, action, or feeling.
1876[see méfiance]. 1883Atlantic Monthly Aug. 179/1 The ingenious Catherine—she was a raffinée. 1920D. H. Lawrence Lost Girl i. 10 No French marquis..could have been more elegant and raffiné. 1943Scrutiny XI. 317 He is an older and wiser Tonio Kröger who has broken away from the precious and the raffiné. 1966Punch 2 Feb. 173/1 The waiter, the actor, the communist, the painter all have their says [in a play] but it is through the analyst and the raffiné aristocrat..that we learn of hate-objects. 1970New Yorker 23 May 126/3 He has a tendency..to favor his vigorous vulgarians at the expense of his effete raffinés. |