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beau monde
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Beau Monde is a Dutch language monthly glamour and lifestyle magazine published in the Netherlands . It is owned by Sanoma and is published by Sanoma Uitgevers. The magazine has its headquarters in Hoofddorp . Its editor-in-chief in 2015 is Ellen Litz. ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Beau monde \Beau` monde"\ [F. beau fine + monde world.] The fashionable world; people of fashion and gayety. --Prior.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (cx dated English) The fashionable part of society.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also beau-monde , "the fashionable world," 1714, French; see beau + monde , from Latin mundus "world" (see mundane ).\n
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the fashionable elite [syn: society , high society , smart set , bon ton ]
Usage examples of beau monde.
Besides, the beau monde will be scandalized if I -- we befriend him!
She missed the home of her memories: the theaters on the Boulevard of Flowers with all their lights lit, the beau monde in their coaches and long black motorcars drawing up in the opera circle, the raucous cafes and clubs where sultry women sang and drunken artists and their models reeled into the streets laughing, the old leather and dust and calm silence of the libraries at Lodun, the noisy markets of the little villages and towns she and Arisilde had wandered through the year after her mother died.
One's very beau monde, and she lost her fiance early in the war, the other's older, but she lost her husband only a few months ago.
But then, she was not, by birth, a member of the beau monde at all.
But such styles were the very height of fashion, she was told, and she came to understand that to the beau monde fashion was a sort of deity that must be obeyed without question.
There was a fire in her that would be evident to every court card of the beau monde.