demimondaine
Americannoun
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demimondaines
plural
adjective
noun
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Etymology
Origin of demimondaine
1890–95; < French, equivalent to demimonde demimonde + -aine feminine adj. suffix < Latin -āna -an
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A demimondaine with a shocking reputation, by the time of her death, in 1954, Colette was an institution, the first French woman of letters ever honored with a state funeral.
From New York Times ● Feb. 6, 2023
Oren, more interested in small gestures than gleaming sound, begins the first scene with bumptious brasses and a breakneck tempo that make the room spin, spelling disaster for Verdi’s hard-partying demimondaine.
From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2022
At whatever age, Kim Stanley proves a gifted actress, but she seems about as Gallic as cornflakes and as demimondaine as Betsy Ross.
From Time Magazine Archive
A few months later, Lloyd Webber showed Nunn an unpublished Eliot cat poem sent to him by the poet's widow Valerie, about a woeful demimondaine named Grizabella.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was no interesting toil to relieve their unhappy lot, and no distinction was made of the insane, the law-breaking criminal, and the wretched streetwalker or demimondaine.
From Orphans of the Storm by Henry MacMahon
He turns pro, pilfering privileged homes and allying himself with a series of outcasts: a spoiled priest, anarchists, and demimondaines who find him criminally good-looking.
From Time Magazine Archive
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