haute monde

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Noun
  • Performers in traditional dress portray Inca nobility, priests and warriors, and the rituals are conducted in Quechua, the language of the Inca Empire and still widely spoken in the Andes today.
    Hanna Wickes, Sacbee.com, 2 June 2026
  • The Korean nobility of bygone eras simply had better taste.
    Lori Waxman, Chicago Tribune, 29 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Jennifer Lopez is rom-com royalty.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 5 June 2026
  • Its publishing arm, D1 – established in 2017 – focuses on royalty collection, rights management and catalog development.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 4 June 2026
Noun
  • The name originated after apartheid ended in the 1990s and was rebranded as Bafana to reflect the integrated society.
    Amna Subhan, AJC.com, 9 June 2026
  • His arrest came during a years-long crackdown on civil society and dissent, which began following mass protests in 2018 that the government violently repressed.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2026
Noun
  • That’s where master wood crafter Jon Hartman comes in, creating heirloom-quality furnishing and gifts by upcycling the single-use barrels through his Whiskey Woodcraft program, located in the distillery’s former cooperage.
    Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 June 2026
  • How to analyze a poetics of irreverence and improvisation—of life experienced in a perpetual present—without stifling precisely these qualities?
    Joe Dunthorne, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2026
Noun
  • An initial request asks King to modify seven pages featuring the Dame Winifred Harcourt character, including an anecdote that parodied Skeffington-Lodge’s fumbled attempt to secure a peerage.
    Charlie Tyson, Harpers Magazine, 21 Apr. 2026
  • In addition to seeking Mandelson’s withdrawal from the House of Lords, Starmer has sought to strip him of his peerage — a somewhat Herculean task that can only be done through an act of parliament.
    Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 3 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The nobles and gentry—the billionaires of Tudor England—made fortunes from the reclaimed monastery lands and created a myth of Henry’s military strength and English pride.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Parker will play Mary Washington, George’s strong willed mother, while Rodgers will play Sally Cary, the charming beauty of the Virginia gentry who first sees his potential.
    Alex Ritman, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But his natural gentility is tough to dress down.
    Naveen Kumar, Variety, 10 Apr. 2026
  • But the glory and gentility that had been the Pontchartrain was gone.
    Rick Bragg, Southern Living, 15 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • She’s being raised in upper crust Gilead society, tutored in a private girls’ school led by Aunt Lydia (Ann Dowd) for a potential prosperous husband, specifically one in the upper ranks of the military.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 27 May 2026
  • To give the illusion of a real club for California’s upper crust, several celebrities make cameos as club guests, including Michael Phelps, Suni Lee, and Finneas O’Connell, all of whom play snobbish parodies of themselves.
    Sam Reed, Glamour, 17 Apr. 2026
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“Haute monde.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/haute%20monde. Accessed 12 Jun. 2026.

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