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
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 Gibbs, George
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
And the mondaine with her boredom ... the hatred in wide houses....
From The Wind Bloweth by Donn-Byrne, Brian Oswald
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
