"mixed company" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1880, Charlotte M. Yonge, chapter 5, in Clever Woman of the Family",
          "text": "\"Imagine my one attempt at rational conversation last night. Asking his views on female emigration . . . .\"\n\"Perhaps the bearings of the question would hardly suit mixed company.\"",
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          "ref": "1908, B. M. Bower, chapter 3, in The Long Shadow",
          "text": "\"Took 'er home all right, did yuh?\" he leered, as if they two were in possession of a huge joke of the kind which may not be told in mixed company.",
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          "ref": "1950 May, “A Tunisian Electric Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 335",
          "text": "Travel is enlivened not only by the mixed company of French, Berbers, Arabs, and descendants of the Mediterranean-Corsairs who sit together indiscriminately, but also by itinerant vendors of macaroons, sweetmeats and the like, who, as long as they have a travel ticket, ply their wares unhindered by the [ticket] collectors.",
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          "text": "\"Fifteen or 20 years ago, you couldn't even mention the word prostate in polite mixed company.\"",
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          "ref": "2004, Stella Starsky, Quinn Cox, Sextrology: The Astrology of Sex and the Sexes, page 189",
          "text": "Only a Cancer female can describe in mixed company a night spent with a lover and a double-sided dildo without a sniff of shame or irony.",
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        "Men and women, both present at a gathering."
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