Uncle Tom’s Cabin vocabulary

among them was a highly-dressed young mulatto man, evidently a very distingue personage, attired in the ultra extreme of the mode, and gracefully waving a scented cambric handkerchief in his hand.

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The vicinity of the young man he certainly relished, educated, distingué and impulsive into the bargain, far and away the pick of the bunch though you wouldn't think he had it in him yet you would.

James Joyce. Ulysses

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There was an air distingué pervading the whole man, which spoke of high breeding, and hinted at high birth.

Edgar Allan Poe. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4: The Man That Was Used Up (1839)