beau monde
Example Sentences
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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
That many of his subjects were famous, the glamorous beau monde of Tinseltown and swinging London, can distract from the seriousness of his investigation, the weirdness of his solutions.
From The Guardian • Jan. 13, 2017
Le beau monde from Brussels opted for Knokke-Heist.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 30, 2016
And the scenes in which the motley prisoners bring a restoration comedy of the beau monde to faltering life remain pretty much irresistible, even when they skirt cliché and anachronism.
From New York Times • Aug. 31, 2015
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
