"chichi" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1951, Elizabeth Taylor, A Game of Hide and Seek:",
          "text": "Going in gangs to those chichi clubs at Maidenhead.",
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          "ref": "1957, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC:",
          "text": "We drove up the mountain and found the narrow streets chock full of chichi tourists.",
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          "ref": "1969 January 22, Daily Telegraph:",
          "text": "The sort of real delicious Italian country cooking that is a revelation after so much chichi Italian food dished up in London.",
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          "ref": "2017 September 20, Sophie Gilbert, “The Good Place Is Still TV Heaven”, in The Atlantic:",
          "text": "Not since a journalist morphed into Al Pacino in The Devil’s Advocate has a metamorphosis been so jarring. Of course, there were clues: Michael kicked a puppy in the very second episode, and no self-respecting Elysium so closely resembles a chichi outdoor mall in Pasadena.",
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          "ref": "2019 September 9, Nick Trend, “Why now is the perfect time to rediscover an old favourite across the Channel”, in Daily Telegraph:",
          "text": "If this was in Cornwall, which it so closely resembles, it would have become the most chichi of gentrified enclaves, colonised by big-name chefs and celebrity regulars.",
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        "(mildly derogatory) Affectedly trendy; chic and stylish in a pretentious way."
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          "text": "[H]e rubbed [his hands] with Bag Balm to help the cuts heal and keep the skin soft, a trick he'd learned from his grandmother, who told him when he was eighteen and getting ready for a date that no woman wanted to feel rough hands scratching up her chichis.",
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          "text": "And later, in Latin Grill Express, Jesus makes sure to compliment her accent, her vocabulary, to express admiration for the way her chichis looked in the last dress all over again, then Sarah asks about his plans for work, what he will do when they all leave.",
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        "A woman's breast."
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          "text": "We drove up the mountain and found the narrow streets chock full of chichi tourists.",
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          "text": "The sort of real delicious Italian country cooking that is a revelation after so much chichi Italian food dished up in London.",
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          "text": "Not since a journalist morphed into Al Pacino in The Devil’s Advocate has a metamorphosis been so jarring. Of course, there were clues: Michael kicked a puppy in the very second episode, and no self-respecting Elysium so closely resembles a chichi outdoor mall in Pasadena.",
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          "text": "[H]e rubbed [his hands] with Bag Balm to help the cuts heal and keep the skin soft, a trick he'd learned from his grandmother, who told him when he was eighteen and getting ready for a date that no woman wanted to feel rough hands scratching up her chichis.",
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