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  • In India, perhaps there is again a need to "mimic the west", now, in particular America, and thus perhaps the women attire is going towards western formal which perhaps has a perception of being "chique" to make it in line with the "like how it is in US" look?

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  • Nokey and Janestarz stayed over at our place this weekend, and we watched the gamers I and II, we went to the sauna, to Orient Plaza (which is not as chique as I remember it, I was alittle disappointed) and on Sunday we dressed up as Vuurdoorn and Maretak and made pictures.

    weekly nathreee 2009

  • Apparently, Omani diplomats have Yemeni tribal leaders' cell phone numbers on "speed dial," I was recently told over coffee at a chique Muscat hotel.

    Sigurd Neubauer: How the Arab Spring Skirted Oman Sigurd Neubauer 2011

  • It's Ellenora that needs to be dressed, so it has to be fabulous and chique.

    things to plan for next Maerquin nathreee 2010

  • The Torchwood we all know and love is based out of an underground sewer chique bunker with vaults and strange cog doors and dripping pipes.

    Torchwood USA? « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more 2010

  • The climbing wall instills a fun factor into the building and therefore forms a contrast to the chique red glass façade.

    New Student Housing at the University of Twente 2008

  • Not being American or French, it took me at least eight seconds to understand that "Tray Sheek" seemingly stands for "très chique".

    Monte Carlo Resort: World's Worst Hitchhiker Cosmo7 2009

  • Back in the late 1970s, early 1980s, I lived on 95th and Columbus in New York City; long before it went chique.

    Taylor Marsh: Obama: Grandmother "Typical White Person" 2008

  • I've shambled through the Cambridge steets adorned in zombie fry cook chique.

    April 30th, 2006 colorwheel 2006

  • As an under-grad I considered myself in the lumberjack chique category.

    Proper Dress?? 2004

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