mondaine
Example Sentences
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The aristocratic and spiritual dimensions of painting were giving way to something more fashionable, more mondaine.
From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2023
And where fashion reigns the difference between mondaine and demi-mondaine is unfortunately not always apparent.
From Riviera Towns by Herbert Adams Gibbons
To an outsider or a mondaine, the Maidonovo routine would have seemed monotonous to a verge of imbecility.
From The Genius by Margaret Horton Potter
It was not the Olga Tcherny that people knew best—the gay, satirical mondaine, who exacted from a world which had denied her happiness her pound of flesh and called it pleasure.
From Madcap by George Gibbs
And he was sending bouquets as to some mondaine of the vanished world and of his youth.
From The Hippodrome by Rachel Hayward
