mondaine

/ mɔ̃dɛn /

noun

1. a woman who moves in fashionable society

adjective

1. characteristic of fashionable society; worldly

Word History and Origins

Origin of mondaine¹

C19: from French; see mundane

Example Sentences

But it is so; oh, very frivolous—very mondaine, before the war—who loved good things, as a child loves sugar plums!

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The mondaine Empress was at once merged in the adoring mother; her whole soul was wrapped up in the boy.

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You must not confuse the demi-mondaine with the grande cocotte.

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For once, the demi-mondaine was alone, bored to extinction by the blatant ribaldry of Octave Mirbeau.

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Now that she is back, she takes her return as carelessly and unblushingly as a demi-mondaine does her annual return from Dinard.

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