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
The men are drawn with no less strength and sincerity; while Lady Juliet—the brilliant, heartless, little mondaine who precipitates the tragedy of three lives—is a thumb-nail sketch of a fascinating, if worthless, type.
From Werwolves by Elliott O'Donnell
Leave out the demi; call it mondaine, mundane.
From Tragic Sense Of Life by J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch
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 Mary Alsop King Waddington
And the mondaine with her boredom ... the hatred in wide houses....
From The Wind Bloweth by Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne
