mondaine

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noun

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

mondaine

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adjective

variants or mondain

"

: worldly, sophisticated, fashionable

a comedy, very corrupt and mondaine, with a continental background

—Margaret Kennedy

the perfectly coiffed, mondaine woman

—May Sarton

Word History

Etymology

Noun

French, from feminine of mondain, adjective

Adjective

French mondaine, feminine, & mondain, masculine, from Latin mundanus of the world

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