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Definition of Demimondaine
1. Noun. A woman whose sexual promiscuity places her outside respectable society.
Generic synonyms: Bawd, Cocotte, Cyprian, Fancy Woman, Harlot, Lady Of Pleasure, Prostitute, Sporting Lady, Tart, Whore, Woman Of The Street, Working Girl
Definition of Demimondaine
1. Noun. A sexually promiscuous woman (of the ''demimonde'') ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Demimondaine
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Demimondaine
Literary usage of Demimondaine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Shakspere and His Predecessors by Frederick Samuel Boas (1902)
"This demimondaine born in the purple, with her hot and cold fits, her mingled
restlessness and languor, her passion at once false and true, her lavishness ..."
2. Poet Lore (1913)
"At Paris she becomes a fashionable demimondaine, with a salon and gambling parlor.
A set of dissolute men and women surround her, ..."
3. The American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children (1901)
"About seven hundred years ago a demimondaine, with a view of intensifying her
charms, encased her body in a corsage of steel; and as centuries rolled on, ..."
4. Alaska and the Klondike: A Journey to the New Eldorado with Hints to the by Angelo Heilprin (1899)
"Much more likely is it that some fair demimondaine will be sought for her advice
or judgment, than that a " good " one will be rewarded for the virtuous ..."
5. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1887)
"A RATHER novel point in forensic medicine has arisen in connection with tills
murder—the victims of which were a celebrated demimondaine who, along with her ..."
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