woman of the world

Cecile with a little patronising woman-of-the-world air stooped and kissed him first on one cheek and then on the other.

The air of the woman-of-the-world was, somehow, entirely absent.

Then, all at once, the uneasy woman-of-the-world mask dropped from her face and she seized Gyp's hand.

This she parried with a woman-of-the-world air, quite different from her old childlike frankness.

"You've said it, Mrs. Simms," agreed Peg with her woman-of-the-world air as she drew on her riding gloves.