mondain
Britishnoun
adjective
Etymology
Origin of mondain
C19: from French; see mundane
Example Sentences
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Even so, Judt preferred what he called the more mondain tone of Oxford to Cambridge "cleverness", and said later that he had been tempted to return to Oxford, but never to his own alma mater.
From The Guardian • Aug. 8, 2010
That world was brilliant, distinguished, sometimes artistic, sometimes merely mondain.
From Love at Second Sight by Leverson, Ada
One morality by itself, L’Homme juste et l’homme mondain, contains some 36,000 lines.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various
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