high style

noun

: the newest style in fashion or design usually adopted by a limited number of people

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Populated almost entirely by impossibly wealthy characters reveling in penthouse splendor, the Astaire-Rogers movies argued with high style against the proposition that the material and social rewards of wealth were dubious. — David Hajdu, Vanity Fair, 20 Oct. 2026 Now, 31 years later, a new movie adaptation, starring Daisy Edgar-Jones, Esmé Creed-Miles, Caitríona Balfe, George MacKay, Herbert Nordrum, and Fiona Shaw has arrived in theaters in appropriately high style. — Reshma Gopaldas, IndieWire, 19 Oct. 2026 Fashion and athletics have long shared a vocabulary of performance and precision—and nowhere more visibly than in Italy, where houses from Prada to Armani have repeatedly blurred the line between sporting uniform and high style. — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 23 Sep. 2026 Bernstein was a know-it-all who was also a showoff, to put it bluntly, with both qualities neatly packaged as high style. — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for high style

Word History

First Known Use

1933, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of high style was in 1933

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“High style.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/high%20style. Accessed 22 Oct. 2026.

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