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
To an outsider or a mondaine, the Maidonovo routine would have seemed monotonous to a verge of imbecility.
From The Genius by Margaret Horton Potter
But the acuteness of the mondaine pales before that of the lover.
From The Genius by Margaret Horton Potter
He depicted these aspects of the vie mondaine and demi-mondaine of 1865 from afar and de chic.
From The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama by Augustin Filon
And where fashion reigns the difference between mondaine and demi-mondaine is unfortunately not always apparent.
From Riviera Towns by Herbert Adams Gibbons
