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
Leave out the demi; call it mondaine, mundane.
From Tragic Sense Of Life by Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)
And he was sending bouquets as to some mondaine of the vanished world and of his youth.
From The Hippodrome by Hayward, Rachel
And where fashion reigns the difference between mondaine and demi-mondaine is unfortunately not always apparent.
From Riviera Towns by Gibbons, Herbert Adams
And the mondaine with her boredom ... the hatred in wide houses....
From The Wind Bloweth by Donn-Byrne, Brian Oswald
