beau monde
Example Sentences
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Also swirling around Mr. Perrotin in the crush of street-style poseurs were beau monde bohos like Kaws, Alexandre de Betak, André Saraiva and Jefferson Hack.
From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2018
She would sit and talk long into the night with the flamboyant artist Francis Bacon and the rest of that decade's rakish beau monde.
From BBC • Sep. 11, 2018
It was a glamorous home-from-home to Proust, Hemingway and the beau monde.
From The Guardian • Feb. 10, 2018
Le beau monde from Brussels opted for Knokke-Heist.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 30, 2016
He ordered that I be bought a new bag-wig, and my mother a whole series of costly dresses a la mode du beau monde.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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