Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Worldly; absorbed in the fashionable world.
- noun A woman who loves the pomps and vanities of this world; one who is devoted to the world of fashion; a worldling.
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Examples
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Anyway, Mamselle Caprice must have been the Messalina Prizewoman of her year; no demi-mondaine perhaps, according to Blowitz, but as expert an amateur as I'd ever struck, with the priceless gift of fairly revelling in her sex, and using it with joyous abandon ... and considerable calculation, as I was about to learn.
Watershed 2010
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She is no demi-mondaine, la belle Caprice, but she is ... a woman of the world, let us say.
Watershed 2010
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I'll never live down the time I was at the Oak Room at the Plaza in New York with some college chums and in order to show how mondaine (as opposed to mundane) I was, I dramatically ordered a "drahm-bwee-ooo" on the rocks.
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The most typical image of him is a mondaine hedonist, coolly sucking on a Gitane while caressing a ravishing doll.
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Happily for him, his astonishing reserve did not excite the curiosity of the fashionable world, and was only discussed in the demi-mondaine regions.
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Happily for him, his astonishing reserve did not excite the curiosity of the fashionable world, and was only discussed in the demi-mondaine regions.
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Instantly the scene changed, crowds of friends gathered round our baron, who meanwhile had lost his head over a celebrated demi-mondaine; he even discovered some relations; moreover a number of young girls of high birth burned to be united to him in lawful matrimony.
The Idiot 2002
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She is no demi-mondaine, la belle Caprice, but she is ... a woman of the world, let us say.
Flashman And The Tiger Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1999
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