beau monde

[ boh-mond; French boh mawnd ]
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noun
  1. the fashionable world; high society.

Origin of beau monde

1
1705–15; <French: literally, fine world. See beau, monde

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How to use beau monde in a sentence

  • At least this is as far as my observation of him goes on the few occasions I have seen him in the beau monde.

  • There can be no question but that the middle-class fashion designer revenges himself upon the beau monde.

  • There was no alternative; we all got up, and in a short time were amid the beau monde of these parts.

  • Watteau prevailed with them over John Stuart Mill—in a word, they spoke of the beau monde.

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  • The toilettes of the whole beau monde were in activity from sunny morn to dewy eve; and from dewy eve to waxlighted midnight.

British Dictionary definitions for beau monde

beau monde

/ (ˈbəʊ ˈmɒnd, French bo mɔ̃d) /


noun
  1. the world of fashion and society

Origin of beau monde

1
C18: French, literally: fine world

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