mondaine

noun
mon·​daine | \ mōnˈdān\
plural -s

Definition of mondaine

 (Entry 1 of 2)

: a woman belonging to fashionable society : woman of the world : sophisticate all the barbershop roués and millinery-parlor mondaines— Sinclair Lewis

mondaine

adjective
variants: or mondain \ " \

Definition of mondaine (Entry 2 of 2)

: worldly, sophisticated, fashionable a comedy, very corrupt and mondaine, with a continental background— Margaret Kennedy the perfectly coiffed, mondaine woman— May Sarton

History and Etymology for mondaine

Noun

French, from feminine of mondain, adjective

Adjective

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

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