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mondaine

British  
/ mɔ̃dɛn /

noun

  1. a woman who moves in fashionable society

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. characteristic of fashionable society; worldly

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Etymology

Origin of mondaine

C19: from French; see mundane

Example Sentences

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The aristocratic and spiritual dimensions of painting were giving way to something more fashionable, more mondaine.

From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2023

Mais de la joye mondaine La course est si tressoudaine, Qu'elle passe encor devant L'eau et le traict et le vent.

From Salon • Sep. 3, 2022

The princess was not very mondaine, didn't care about society and life in a city—preferred the country, with riding and shooting and any sort of sport.

From My First Years as a Frenchwoman, 1876-1879 by Waddington, Mary Alsop King

Malgré sa prétention d'être un asile fermé aux bruits du dehors, Saint-Nicolas était a cette époque la maison la plus brillante et la plus mondaine.

From Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890 by Church, R. W. (Richard William)

And the mondaine with her boredom ... the hatred in wide houses....

From The Wind Bloweth by Donn-Byrne, Brian Oswald