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

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 Waddington, Mary Alsop King

And where fashion reigns the difference between mondaine and demi-mondaine is unfortunately not always apparent.

From Riviera Towns by Gibbons, Herbert Adams

But the acuteness of the mondaine pales before that of the lover.

From The Genius by Potter, Margaret Horton