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

Mais de la joye mondaine La course est si tressoudaine, Qu'elle passe encor devant L'eau et le traict et le vent.

From Salon • Sep. 3, 2022

And he was sending bouquets as to some mondaine of the vanished world and of his youth.

From The Hippodrome by Hayward, Rachel

Malgré sa prétention d'être un asile fermé aux bruits du dehors, Saint-Nicolas était a cette époque la maison la plus brillante et la plus mondaine.

From Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890 by Church, R. W. (Richard William)

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 Wilde, Oscar