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

This is the haut monde of motor sports — the fastest cars, the most challenging circuits, the most expensive technologies.

From New York Times

The novelist Thomas Wolfe caught a Cirque Calder performance in an haut monde New York salon, thought it the last word in elitist pandering and said so in the scathing “Piggy Logan’s Circus” chapter of “You Can’t Go Home Again.”

From New York Times

Still, vestiges of the Century’s haut monde past remain.

From New York Times

In scenes that included the haut monde, Minnelli was especially brilliant and derisive.

From The New Yorker