Also means
quest
Usage Note
Recherche is a French feminine noun used as a gallicism in Italian cultural and academic writing, meaning research or a quest. As a French adjective it also connotes something refined or recherché. The standard Italian equivalent is ricerca (f). Its presence in Italian texts often signals a 19th-century literary or philosophical register, or a deliberate allusion to Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu.
Examples
"La sua opera è una recherche della memoria perduta."
Natural Translation
His work is a quest for lost memory.
Literal Translation
The his work is a research of-the memory lost.
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