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
Leave out the demi; call it mondaine, mundane.
From Tragic Sense Of Life by Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)
And he was sending bouquets as to some mondaine of the vanished world and of his youth.
From The Hippodrome by Hayward, Rachel
And where fashion reigns the difference between mondaine and demi-mondaine is unfortunately not always apparent.
From Riviera Towns by Gibbons, Herbert Adams
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
