Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The world of fashionable society.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The fashionable world; people of fashion and gayety, collectively.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- The fashionable world; people of fashion and gayety.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun dated The
fashionable part ofsociety .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the fashionable elite
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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When the French philosopher, author and inveterate womaniser Albert Camus died in a car accident in 1960 just two years after winning the Nobel prize for literature, France's intellectual beau monde mourned what seemed an almost freakish tragedy.
Albert Camus might have been killed by the KGB for criticising the Soviet Union, claims newspaper 2011
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It also transported in regal splendor diplomats, divas and duchesses, the beau monde and the demimonde, maharajahs, moguls and con men, courtesans, couriers, private eyes and spies.
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But, last Monday, ugliness intruded into this beau monde, in the form of Mr. Arnault's star designer at Christian Dior, John Galliano.
NYT > Home Page By LIZ ALDERMAN 2011
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Like tans and Burberry checks, fascinators started as a modish, beau monde affectation and have spiralled their way down via the likes of the middleish Middletons to the hoi polloi - in the process becoming ever more crassly garish.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Hannah Betts 2012
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The scandal has rocked Russia's beau monde, a sliver of society more used to sipping champagne cocktails than discussing political ruptures.
The Guardian World News Miriam Elder 2011
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Left Bank intellectuals, the luminaries of Paris's beau monde and members of the capital's chattering classes tend to crumple with a mixture of fear and loathing at the mention of Le Pen's name.
The Guardian World News Kim Willsher 2012
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But, last Monday, ugliness intruded into this beau monde, in the form of Mr. Arnault's star designer at Christian Dior, John Galliano.
NYT > Home Page By LIZ ALDERMAN 2011
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But, last Monday, ugliness intruded into this beau monde, in the form of Mr. Arnault's star designer at Christian Dior, John Galliano.
NYT > Global Home By LIZ ALDERMAN 2011
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I was sunning myself beside the pool of the Gezira Club – the former haunt of British officers during the reign of King Farouk, but now the domain of the Cairene beau monde and assorted foreigners who’d been posted to the Egyptian capital.
A Special Relationship Douglas Kennedy 2003
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I was sunning myself beside the pool of the Gezira Club – the former haunt of British officers during the reign of King Farouk, but now the domain of the Cairene beau monde and assorted foreigners who’d been posted to the Egyptian capital.
A Special Relationship Douglas Kennedy 2003
whichbe commented on the word beau monde
The world of high society and fashion. (from WordCraft)
May 20, 2008