beau monden.
/bəʊ ˈmɒnd/ The fashionable world, ‘society’.
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society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > fashionable society > [noun]
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high life?a1518
towna1616
world1618
grand monde1673
society1693
beau monde1712
fine world1740
monde1765
tonc1770
high society1782
fashion1807
all the world1808
society1840
smart set1851
swelldom1854
Fifth Avenue1858
fashionabledom1859
haut monde1864
the big cheesea1910
higlif1911
haute Bohème1925
café society1937
jet set1949
beautiful people1950
1712 A. Pope Rape of Locke ii, in Misc. Poems 375 This, the Beau-monde shall from the Mall survey.
1756 T. Nugent Grand Tour I. 116 The beau-monde used to go in masquerade about the streets.
1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XIV xx. 125 Of the Beau Monde a part potential.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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