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