haut monde
Example Sentences
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While in Switzerland, she persuades the haut monde that she is a wealthy widow — and earns the admiration of two eligible suitors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2019
Still, vestiges of the Century’s haut monde past remain.
From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2016
In scenes that included the haut monde, Minnelli was especially brilliant and derisive.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 13, 2015
Scheming in embroidered cloche hats, it sipped tea and fingered jewels while listening to the gossip of the haut monde.
From Slate ● Mar. 18, 2014
Ross retained the impassive expression he had been cultivating ever since he read in English "high life" novels descriptions of the bearing of men of the "haut monde."
From The Second Generation by Phillips, David Graham
