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beau monde

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the beau monde (formal)

rich and fashionable people. She took no interest in the glittering beau monde that she had married into.

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It has also found out that they will entertain a brilliant and distinguished circle of the ELITE of the BEAU MONDE (the fashionable intelligence is weak in English, but a giant refreshed in French) at the ancient and hospitable family seat in Lincolnshire. Bleak House by Dickens, Charles View in context More results

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