mondaine
1 of 2noun
mon·daine
mōnˈdān
plural -s
: a woman belonging to fashionable society : woman of the world : sophisticate
all the barbershop roués and millinery-parlor mondaines
Sinclair Lewis
Sinclair Lewismondaine
2 of 2adjective
variants or mondain
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: worldly, sophisticated, fashionable
a comedy, very corrupt and mondaine, with a continental background Margaret Kennedy
Margaret Kennedythe perfectly coiffed, mondaine woman May Sarton
May Sarton
Word History
Etymology
Noun
French, from feminine of mondain, adjective
Adjective
French mondaine, feminine, & mondain, masculine, from Latin mundanus of the world