haut monde

haut monde

also haute monde  (ō mŏnd′)
n.
Fashionable society.

[French : haut, high + monde, world, society.]
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haut monde

(o mɔ̃d)
n
high society
[literally: high world]
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haut monde

(ˌoʊ ˈmɒnd)

also haute-monde

(ˌoʊtˈmɒnd)
n.
high society.
[1860–65; < French]
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Summary: New Delhi [India] August 27(ANI/NewsVoir): Haut Monde India Founder, Bharat K Bhramar visited Greece to finalise the logistics and operational part of their upcoming event, the biggest annual beauty pageant for married Indian women, Haut Monde Mrs India Worldwide 2019.
Haut Monde of Lahore is also known for nighttime activities like concerts and shisha bars.
According to The Telegraph, Gigi Chao is a business mogul too, as the director of Haut Monde Talent, a model management and PR company in Hong Kong.
Buckley was not only a giant celebrity, he lived in a manner of the haut monde. To enter Buckley's world was to enter the world of yachts, limousines, finger bowls at dinner, celebrities such as David Niven and tales of skiing at Gstaad.
Those darlings of the depraved haut monde, the Vicomte de Valmont and his partner in guile, the Marquise de Merteuil, are back, this time in a dance piece rifled "Les Liaisons Dangereuses," and many a spectator will question whether they've ever really gone away.
The prototype for the masochistic Baron Palamede de Charlus in Marcel Proust's Cities of the Plain was Count Robert de Montesquieu (half of the haut monde of the Faubourg St.
Today, if the first novel about growing up is successful, the American novelist usually moves directly to a university campus, or (if the success is both critical and commercial) to the New York haut monde or (if it's just commercial) to someplace warm like Beverly Hills or Aruba.
Summary: New Delhi [India] June 04 (ANI/ NewsVoir): Haut Monde, Hill Stream Resort and Spa, situated among the lush green mountains, provide the most luxurious rooms.
The question gains in complexity during a drunken and giddy encounter with Mike, who jettisons his aspersions toward the Lord family haut monde long enough to admit he just may be falling in love with Tracy, the queen awaiting dethronement.
Summary: New Delhi [India], Aug 9 (ANI): Neha Deshpande of Pune, Maharashtra has bagged the title of '7th Haut Monde Mrs India Worldwide 2017.'
Instead, sour-faced and huskily spoken, Harris cuts so sexless a figure that he is an active turnoff in a play that has always been a bit of a turn-on, shocking us at the misdeeds of the French haut monde while prompting not a little salivation as this calculating roue brings society (and himself) to ruin.