Definition of "recherché"

Mangostanes, the recherché fruit of the Straits Settlements, are found in the Islands of Mindanao and Sulu.

1892, John Foreman, The Philippine Islands, page 375

Stores, dealerships, galleries struggled to satisfy the skyrocketing demand for ever more recherché produce: limited-edition olive oils, three-hundred-dollar corkscrews, customized Humvees, the latest anti-virus software, escort services featuring contortionists and twins, video installations, outsider art, featherlight shawls made from the chin-fluff of extinct mountain goats.

2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, page 3