mondaine
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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 he was sending bouquets as to some mondaine of the vanished world and of his youth.
From The Hippodrome by Rachel Hayward
And the mondaine with her boredom ... the hatred in wide houses....
From The Wind Bloweth by Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne
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
But the acuteness of the mondaine pales before that of the lover.
From The Genius by Margaret Horton Potter
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