"demirep" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 569",
          "text": "he had no knowledge of that character which is vulgarly called a demirep; that is to say, a woman who intrigues with every man she likes, under the name and appearance of virtue [...] in short, whom everybody knows to be what nobody calls her.",
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          "ref": "1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, I.i",
          "text": "Madam by this Time Lady Brittle is the Talk of half the Town—and I doubt not in a week the Men will toast her as a Demirep.",
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          "ref": "1813, Leigh Hunt, in a journal article about the prince.(Chambers, R.. \"'The Book of Days': A miscellany of popular antiquities. Londres: W & R Chambers, 1832.\" Google Books)",
          "text": "[…] in short, this delightful, blissful, wise, pleasurable, honourable, virtuous, true, and immortal prince, was a violator of his word, a libertine, over head and ears in disgrace, a despiser of domestic ties, the companion of gamblers and demireps […] ."
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          "ref": "1822, Thomas de Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater",
          "text": "[…] the greater part of our confessions (that is, spontaneous and extra-judicial confessions) proceed from demireps, adventurers, or swindlers […].",
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          "ref": "1904, Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol",
          "text": "With the mincing step of a demirep / Some sidled up the stairs […].",
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        "A woman of doubtful reputation or suspected character; an adventuress."
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