mondaine
/ (French mɔ̃dɛn) /
a woman who moves in fashionable society
characteristic of fashionable society; worldly
Origin of mondaine
1Words 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 JohnsonThe mondaine Empress was at once merged in the adoring mother; her whole soul was wrapped up in the boy.
Tracks of a Rolling Stone | Henry J. CokeYou must not confuse the demi-mondaine with the grande cocotte.
In Vanity Fair | Eleanor Hoyt BrainerdFor once, the demi-mondaine was alone, bored to extinction by the blatant ribaldry of Octave Mirbeau.
Zut and Other Parisians | Guy Wetmore CarrylNow 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
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