Example sentences from the Web for mondaine

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
To an outsider or a mondaine, the Maidonovo routine would have seemed monotonous to a verge of imbecility.
The Genius|Margaret Horton Potter
She may be no more perfectly dressed, this mondaine, than her demi-mondaine sister of Armenonville.
In Vanity Fair|Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd
From the aigrette in her hair to the paste buckle on her shoe she was mondaine.
Hilda|Sarah Jeanette Duncan

But the acuteness of the mondaine pales before that of the lover.
The Genius|Margaret Horton Potter

mondaine

/ (French mɔ̃dɛn) /

SEE SYNONYMS FOR mondaine ON THESAURUS.COM

noun

a woman who moves in fashionable society

adjective

characteristic of fashionable society; worldly

Word Origin for mondaine

C19: from French; see mundane

Words nearby mondaine

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