beau monde
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of beau monde
Example Sentences
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Afterward the beau monde had a few days to find new costumes for the Monday Mayday masquerade.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
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
It was a glamorous home-from-home to Proust, Hemingway and the beau monde.
From The Guardian • Feb. 10, 2018
And the scenes in which the motley prisoners bring a restoration comedy of the beau monde to faltering life remain pretty much irresistible, even when they skirt cliché and anachronism.
From New York Times • Aug. 31, 2015
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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