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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The world of fashionable society.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The fashionable world; people of fashion and gayety, collectively.

Wiktionary

  1. n. dated The fashionable part of society.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. The fashionable world; people of fashion and gayety.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the fashionable elite

Etymologies

  1. French (Wiktionary)
  2. French : beau, good + monde, world, society. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “The beau monde dressed itself “à la Watteau,” the salons and boudoirs of Paris were appointed “à la Watteau,” and young ladies and gentlemen adopted a carriage and pose “à la Watteau.””

    Simon & Schuster: The Dragon’s Trail

  • “Shabby and small as the place was, it was filled with all the beau monde of Cotham, which then, patronized by royalty, rivalled even Bath in its fashion and folly.”

    John Halifax, Gentleman

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  1. elite group
  1. élite

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  1. beaux mondes
  1. le beau monde
  1. monde

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  • whichbe The world of high society and fashion. (from WordCraft) May 20, 2008

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