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beau monde

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beau monde  (b mnd, môd)
n. pl. beaux mondes (b môd) or beau mondes (b mndz)
The world of fashionable society.
[French : beau, good + monde, world, society.]
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Noun1.beau mondebeau monde - the fashionable elite                
bon ton, high society, smart set, society
Four Hundred - the exclusive social set of a city
elite, elite group - a group or class of persons enjoying superior intellectual or social or economic status


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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.
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