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
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 Filon, Augustin
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 Gibbs, George
And where fashion reigns the difference between mondaine and demi-mondaine is unfortunately not always apparent.
From Riviera Towns by Gibbons, Herbert Adams
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
