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

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 Wilde, Oscar

Leave out the demi; call it mondaine, mundane.

From Tragic Sense Of Life by Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)

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

From The Genius by Potter, Margaret Horton