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
Leave out the demi; call it mondaine, mundane.
From Tragic Sense Of Life by J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch
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
Her fringed yellow hair, her tired, got-up eyes, her powdered cheeks, betrayed her mondaine.
From The Green Carnation by Robert Smythe Hichens
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