Definition of Demimondaine

1. Noun. A woman whose sexual promiscuity places her outside respectable society.


Definition of Demimondaine

1. Noun. A sexually promiscuous woman (of the ''demimonde'') ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Demimondaine

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Demimondaine

demilitarised
demilitarises
demilitarising
demilitarization
demilitarizations
demilitarize
demilitarized
demilitarized zone
demilitarizes
demilitarizing
demilune
demilune body
demilunes
demiman
demimen
demimondaines
demimondes
deminatured
demine
demined
deminer
demineralisation
demineralise
demineralised
demineralises
demineralising
demineralization
demineralizations

Literary usage of Demimondaine

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Shakspere and His Predecessors by Frederick Samuel Boas (1902)
"This demimondaine born in the purple, with her hot and cold fits, her mingled restlessness and languor, her passion at once false and true, her lavishness ..."

2. Poet Lore (1913)
"At Paris she becomes a fashionable demimondaine, with a salon and gambling parlor. A set of dissolute men and women surround her, ..."

3. The American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children (1901)
"About seven hundred years ago a demimondaine, with a view of intensifying her charms, encased her body in a corsage of steel; and as centuries rolled on, ..."

4. Alaska and the Klondike: A Journey to the New Eldorado with Hints to the by Angelo Heilprin (1899)
"Much more likely is it that some fair demimondaine will be sought for her advice or judgment, than that a " good " one will be rewarded for the virtuous ..."

5. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1887)
"A RATHER novel point in forensic medicine has arisen in connection with tills murder—the victims of which were a celebrated demimondaine who, along with her ..."

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