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
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
Leave out the demi; call it mondaine, mundane.
From Tragic Sense Of Life by J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch
As we had the letters of the academic Romeo, it was obviously right that we should pretend we had the answers of the clever and somewhat mondaine Juliet.
From Reviews by Oscar Wilde
He depicted these aspects of the vie mondaine and demi-mondaine of 1865 from afar and de chic.
From The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama by Augustin Filon
