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
The men are drawn with no less strength and sincerity; while Lady Juliet—the brilliant, heartless, little mondaine who precipitates the tragedy of three lives—is a thumb-nail sketch of a fascinating, if worthless, type.
From Werwolves by Elliott O'Donnell
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
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
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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