mondaine
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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
And he was sending bouquets as to some mondaine of the vanished world and of his youth.
From The Hippodrome by Rachel Hayward
Her fringed yellow hair, her tired, got-up eyes, her powdered cheeks, betrayed her mondaine.
From The Green Carnation by Robert Smythe Hichens
Leave out the demi; call it mondaine, mundane.
From Tragic Sense Of Life by J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch
But the acuteness of the mondaine pales before that of the lover.
From The Genius by Margaret Horton Potter
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