mondaine

/ (French mɔ̃dɛn) /

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noun

a woman who moves in fashionable society

adjective

characteristic of fashionable society; worldly

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Word Origin for mondaine

C19: from French; see mundane

Words nearby mondaine

mon cher, Monck, Monclova, Moncton, mondain, mondaine, Mondale, Monday, Monday Club, Mondayize, Monday morning quarterback

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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.
Tracks of a Rolling Stone|Henry J. Coke
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

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