I. mōnˈdān noun
( -s )
Etymology: French, from feminine of mondain, adjective
: a woman belonging to fashionable society : woman of the world : sophisticate
all the barbershop roués and millinery-parlor mondaines — Sinclair Lewis
II. adjective
or mon·dain “
Etymology: French mondaine, feminine, & mondain, masculine, from Latin mundanus of the world — more at mundane
: worldly , sophisticated , fashionable
a comedy, very corrupt and mondaine , with a continental background — Margaret Kennedy
the perfectly coiffed, mondaine woman — May Sarton