mondaine

/ (French mɔ̃dɛn) /


noun
  1. a woman who moves in fashionable society

adjective
  1. characteristic of fashionable society; worldly

Origin of mondaine

1
C19: from French; see mundane

Words Nearby mondaine

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How to use mondaine in a sentence

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

    The Wasted Generation | Owen Johnson
  • The mondaine Empress was at once merged in the adoring mother; her whole soul was wrapped up in the boy.

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

    In Vanity Fair | Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd
  • For once, the demi-mondaine was alone, bored to extinction by the blatant ribaldry of Octave Mirbeau.

    Zut and Other Parisians | Guy Wetmore Carryl
  • Now that she is back, she takes her return as carelessly and unblushingly as a demi-mondaine does her annual return from Dinard.

    A Village of Vagabonds | F. Berkeley Smith