Monde \Monde\ (m[^o]Nd), n. [F. See Mundane.]

The world; a globe as an ensign of royalty. [R.]

--A. Drummond.

Le beau monde [F.]

, fashionable society. See Beau monde.

Demi monde. See Demimonde.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)