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
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
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
And he was sending bouquets as to some mondaine of the vanished world and of his youth.
From The Hippodrome by Rachel Hayward
