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

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 Filon, Augustin

To an outsider or a mondaine, the Maidonovo routine would have seemed monotonous to a verge of imbecility.

From The Genius by Potter, Margaret Horton