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▪ I. ‖ monde|mɔ̃d|
[Fr.: lit. ‘world’. Cf. beau monde.]
The ‘world’ of fashionable or aristocratic persons; ‘society’. Also, a person's particular ‘world’ or circle; the ‘set’ in which one moves.
1765H. Walpole Lett. 26 Sept., When the monde returns to Paris, I shall probably be more dissipated. 1774Ibid. 23 Apr., I..expect you will think no personages of less monde fit to invite to our partie quarrée. 1823Byron Juan xiv. xix, 'Tis said..That no one has succeeded in describing The monde, exactly as they ought to paint. 1862Thackeray Philip iv, Unless you are of the very great monde. Ibid., You come home late, and you don't live in a proper monde, sir! 1872E. Braddon Life in India v. 167 Bills have been left at the houses of the monde.
▪ II. monde
obs. pa. tense of mun v. |