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
It was not the Olga Tcherny that people knew best—the gay, satirical mondaine, who exacted from a world which had denied her happiness her pound of flesh and called it pleasure.
From Madcap by George Gibbs
As we had the letters of the academic Romeo, it was obviously right that we should pretend we had the answers of the clever and somewhat mondaine Juliet.
From Reviews by Oscar Wilde
Her fringed yellow hair, her tired, got-up eyes, her powdered cheeks, betrayed her mondaine.
From The Green Carnation by Robert Smythe Hichens
And he was sending bouquets as to some mondaine of the vanished world and of his youth.
From The Hippodrome by Rachel Hayward
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