haut monde
Example Sentences
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While in Switzerland, she persuades the haut monde that she is a wealthy widow — and earns the admiration of two eligible suitors.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2019
Still, vestiges of the Century’s haut monde past remain.
From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2016
In scenes that included the haut monde, Minnelli was especially brilliant and derisive.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 13, 2015
Scheming in embroidered cloche hats, it sipped tea and fingered jewels while listening to the gossip of the haut monde.
From Slate • Mar. 18, 2014
Each noble being was accompanied by his chauffeur, so evidently it was the "thing" to stop in the Hotel de l'Europe, and the haut monde considered Avignon worth wasting time upon.
From The Motor Maid by Williamson, C. N. (Charles Norris)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.