demirep
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of demirep
First recorded in 1740–50; short for demi-reputation
Example Sentences
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Around, around, they waltzed and wound; Some wheeled in smirking pairs: With the mincing step of demirep Some sidled up the stairs: And with subtle sneer, and fawning leer, Each helped us at our prayers.
From Ballad of Reading Gaol by Wilde, Oscar
Like Lady Booby in Joseph Andrews, she is not a pleasant character; but the picture of the fashionable demirep, cynical, sensual, and imperious, has never been drawn more vigorously, or more completely—even by Balzac.
From Fielding by Dobson, Austin
He and his brother, offspring of a lady's maid and an old demirep, owed to their inheritance of a scabrous library the foundations of material prosperity.
From Carnival by MacKenzie, Compton
This small square room with the heavy furniture that occupied so much of the space had no demirep demeanor.
From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by MacKenzie, Compton
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