mondain
/ˈmɒndeɪn/noun
A man who belongs to aristocratic or fashionable society; a male inhabitant of the beau monde.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Sydney Morgan (bap. 1783, d. 1859), novelist and socialite. From French mondain, although only attested from 1868 as noun in this sense, and from 1844 as adjective in the corresponding sense ‘concerned with the life of high society’.
- hold something down
- hold something in
- hold something in fee
- hold something out
- hold something over
- hold sway
- hold the ball
- hold the field
- hold the fort
- hold the front page
- hold the line
- hold the man
- hold the purse strings
- hold the ring
- hold the stage
- hold thumbs
- hold together (or hold something together)
- hold up
- hold up one's head (or hold one's head high)
- hold water
- hold with
- hole
- hole-and-corner
- hole card
- hole-in-one