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单词 grand monde
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grand monden.

Brit. /ˌɡrɒ̃ ˈmɒnd/, U.S. /ˌɡrɑ̃ ˈmɔnd/, /ˌɡræn(d) ˈmɔnd/
Forms: 1600s grand mond, 1700s– grande monde, 1700s– grand monde.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French grand monde, grande monde.
Etymology: < French grand monde, also †grande monde (first half of the 17th cent. or earlier in this sense) < grand grand adj. + monde monde n.
With the. Fashionable society; high society. Cf. beau monde n.
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society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > fashionable society > [noun]
higheOE
high life?a1518
towna1616
world1618
grand monde1673
society1693
beau monde1712
fine world1740
monde1765
tonc1770
high society1782
fashion1807
all the world1808
society1840
smart set1851
swelldom1854
Fifth Avenue1858
fashionabledom1859
haut monde1864
the big cheesea1910
higlif1911
haute Bohème1925
café society1937
jet set1949
beautiful people1950
1673 J. Dryden Marriage a-la-Mode ii. i. 17 A Gentleman, Sir, that understands the Grand mond so well, who has hanted the best conversations.
1704 J. Swift Tale of Tub ii. 57 A Sect arose, whose Tenents [sic] obtained and spread very far, especially in the Grand Monde, and among every Body of good Fashion.
1725 J. Swift Let. 29 Sept. in A. Pope Corr. (1956) II. 324 I am now returning to the noble Scene of Dublin in the Grande Monde.
1782 V. Knox Ess. (new ed.) I. xii. 59 This versatility and duplicity of the grande monde may indeed constitute a man of the world.
1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XIV xlii. 136 She was a fine and somewhat full-blown blonde,..For several winters in the grand, grand Monde.
1892 W. James Let. 29 Apr. (1920) I. 319 Strange to say, altho' practically bed-ridden for years, her mental atmosphere..was altogether that of the grand monde.
1925 D. H. Lawrence St. Mawr 13 Mrs. Witt..always expected to find the real beau monde and the real grand monde somewhere or other.
1968 J. Lukacs Hist. Consciousness v. 181 He wanted to cut a large figure in the world;..he wanted to identify himself with the grand monde.
1996 E. Dunning & S. Mennel tr. N. Elias Germans ii. 126 Both political and civilized behaviour represented the grand monde, the ‘great world’, where people..were full of conceit and pretence.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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