mondaine
Britishnoun
adjective
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
He depicted these aspects of the vie mondaine and demi-mondaine of 1865 from afar and de chic.
From The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama by Filon, Augustin
And the mondaine with her boredom ... the hatred in wide houses....
From The Wind Bloweth by Donn-Byrne, Brian Oswald
Leave out the demi; call it mondaine, mundane.
From Tragic Sense Of Life by Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)
It was not the Olga Tcherny that people knew best—the gay, satirical mondaine, who exacted from a world which had denied her happiness her pound of flesh and called it pleasure.
From Madcap by Gibbs, George
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