单词 | grand monde |
释义 | grand monden. With the. Fashionable society; high society. Cf. beau monde n. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1673 |
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