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
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
And the mondaine with her boredom ... the hatred in wide houses....
From The Wind Bloweth by Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne
The princess was not very mondaine, didn't care about society and life in a city—preferred the country, with riding and shooting and any sort of sport.
From My First Years as a Frenchwoman, 1876-1879 by Mary Alsop King Waddington
