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		Definition of mondaine in English: mondaineadjective mɒnˈdeɪnmɔ̃dɛn Belonging to fashionable society; worldly.  Example sentencesExamples -  The painting reconfigures the motifs and, true to mondaine ideals, pictures Pompadour through artful indirection and allusion as artist and artwork.
 -  That was just achieved by the enthusiastic participants, the solid organisation and the mondaine ambiance of Biarritz.
 -  Corresponding to the collateral social and aesthetic concerns over distinctions of class and genre were additional anxieties about the erosion of gender distinctions in mondaine culture and art.
 -  It is the sophisticated, mondaine, civilised and generally rather unmilitary Germany described so well in this book.
 -  It thematizes the relationship among the toilette, painting, and self-representation, and defines that relationship as a matter of mondaine values rather than as a matter of femininity.
 
 
 Origin   French, feminine of mondain (see mundane).     |