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Not for her the Francophile cliches of café crèmes and bourgeois charm, or the familiar tropes of soignee French Girl dressing which have sold a thousand style books.

From The Guardian • Mar. 18, 2017

Her mother, a girl from Jersey City, is described as "a charming and soignee woman."

From Time Magazine Archive

Russell's most indelible performances may have been as the spirited, soignee Auntie Mame, who believed, as Roz did, that life was "a banquet."

From Time Magazine Archive

She was soignee in a platinum mink stole and picture hat.

From Time Magazine Archive

Her toilet will be as bien soignee and as well chosen at the family breakfast-table as at a ball.

From Frost's Laws and By-Laws of American Society A condensed but thorough treatise on etiquette and its usages in America, containing plain and reliable directions for deportment in every situation in life. by Frost, Sarah Annie