Sentence examples for chichi from inspiring English sources

Comporta is the beach retreat of choice for Lisbon's fashion and media set, who decamp here at weekends to hang out in chichi fisherman's cottages just an hour's drive from the city.

Property prices, particularly in Oslo and chichi ski resorts such as Hemsedal, have risen rapidly in the last decade.

But look past the chichi boutiques and restaurants and wander a little beyond the quiet, leafy terraces and gastropub gardens and you'll find a rather different Islington.

But it's too late, mate, I wolfed the lot down on the spot, staring round me at the bourgeois mummies and daddies strolling from the specialist honey shop to the chichi French kidswear boutique.

Thus Madame Emery, the chichi shopkeeper in the musical The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, brushes aside her daughter Geneviève's infatuation with Guy, a mechanic called up for French national service.

North Cornwall By Jonathan Christie Cornwall's rise from the provincial doldrums has been spearheaded by the creation of chichi enclaves along its coastline.

Arguably the most chichi pressie for DIY wine-tasters is the Coravin Wine Access System, (£269, harrods.com), which allows the wine to flow out through a needle while leaving the cork in place (preventing oxidisation), meaning you can taste how the same bottle evolves over weeks, months or even longer.

On a recent Tuesday night, a raucous, cheerful party took over the NoMad Bar in Manhattan, as the twenty-eight-year-old jazz pianist Jon Batiste, who was recently named the bandleader for Stephen Colbert's revamped version of the "Late Show," performed with a roving gang of about a dozen musicians in the normally chichi and impeccable space.

A bit of chichi that has come to our notice lately is Eleaor Roosevelt's letterhead.

But the most charming product of mob hysteria was the attempt to adopt Einstein as a Calvinistic saint; a stone image of the scientist was built into the most chichi of neo-Baptist meeting-houses in New York.

In the chichi French café where I had been watching the second half with my two young daughters, there were groans and howls of astonishment.