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)
To an outsider or a mondaine, the Maidonovo routine would have seemed monotonous to a verge of imbecility.
From The Genius by Potter, Margaret Horton
Her fringed yellow hair, her tired, got-up eyes, her powdered cheeks, betrayed her mondaine.
From The Green Carnation by Hichens, Robert Smythe
