beau monde
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of beau monde
Example Sentences
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The largest are more than 10 feet tall, and they’re profuse with Mediterranean color that must have startled the Russian beau monde at cocktail hour.
From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2021
She would sit and talk long into the night with the flamboyant artist Francis Bacon and the rest of that decade's rakish beau monde.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2018
That many of his subjects were famous, the glamorous beau monde of Tinseltown and swinging London, can distract from the seriousness of his investigation, the weirdness of his solutions.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 13, 2017
Le beau monde from Brussels opted for Knokke-Heist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2016
He ordered that I be bought a new bag-wig, and my mother a whole series of costly dresses a la mode du beau monde.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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