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

The princess was not very mondaine, didn't care about society and life in a city—preferred the country, with riding and shooting and any sort of sport.

From My First Years as a Frenchwoman, 1876-1879 by Waddington, Mary Alsop King