See demimonde on Wiktionary
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"text": "Those who seek pleasure in a round of dances and fashionable frolic, where the german and the horse-race, the card-table and the drive, are the order of the day, will gather to the sea side and the spa; they will seek Newport, the maelstrom of money; or Long Branch with its broiling sun and its retinue of demimondes and stuck-up-ities; […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1898 February, G. G. Buford, “Brachialgia”, in R. B. Maury et al., editors, The Memphis Lancet, volume I, number 5, Memphis, Tenn.: S. C. Toof & Co., printers, published November 1898, →OCLC, page 277:",
"text": "I was called to see B. J., a demimonde and opium habitue, and found her suffering intensely with pain over the right upper chest, neck and arm, and numbness in the right little finger and one-half of the ring finger. […] Diagnosis—brachialgia following traumatism.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2010, Michael J. K. Walsh, “Introduction: Avant-garde and Avant-guerre”, in Michael J. K. Walsh, editor, London, Modernism, and 1914, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 1:",
"text": "On the evening of 4 August 1914 London's Café Royal was alive with its usual array of demimondes, dandies, aristocrats, émigrés, and self-styled bohemians.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2011, John [Campbell] McMillian, “‘All the Protest Fit to Print’: The Rise of Liberation News Service”, in Smoking Typewriters: The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 82:",
"text": "While on the one hand remaining deeply enmeshed in the cultural stirrings in their own communities, the era's literary demimondes also conceived of themselves as crucial social agents who would chart the New Left's progress, champion its goals, […]",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"A member of such a class or group of persons."
],
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[
"member",
"member"
]
],
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"(by extension) A member of such a class or group of persons."
],
"tags": [
"broadly"
]
}
],
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"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
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"ipa": "/ˈdɛmiˌmɑnd/",
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"General-American"
]
}
],
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{
"word": "demi-monde"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "class of women maintained by wealthy protectors",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "demi-monde"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "class of women maintained by wealthy protectors",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Milieu"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "imíkosmos",
"sense": "class of women maintained by wealthy protectors",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ημίκοσμος"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "class of women maintained by wealthy protectors",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "lume interlopă"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "class of women maintained by wealthy protectors",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "prostituție"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "demimondenki",
"sense": "class of women maintained by wealthy protectors",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "демимонденки"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "polusvét",
"sense": "class of women maintained by wealthy protectors",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "полусве́т"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "group having little respect or reputation",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Halbwelt"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "group having little respect or reputation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "półświatek"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Metropolitan Museum of Art",
"Napoleon III",
"Pierre-Louis Pierson",
"Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione"
],
"word": "demimonde"
}
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