He meets a demimondaine lady of a certain age, Mrs. Tanis Judique. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Sinclair Lewis] Reference
She is no demimondaine, and she wants to be reasonably intact on her wedding night. From Wordnik.com. [Sex and the College Girl] Reference
They certainly have one vocal demimondaine and craving consummate pandering Senator who is currently lusting for the American Presidency. From Wordnik.com. [The Democrat Demimondaine and Consummate Pandering Politician: Hillary Clinton] Reference
Toni did not need to be told that the room into which Luis was now ushering her had been the personal bedroom of that long-ago demimondaine. From Wordnik.com. [River Of Desire]
She viewed herself as she was sure Jake would: a twenty-five-year-old woman, grossly tall, apparently too clumsy to hold a book, and with a demimondaine petticoat contradicting a dress sewn for a much younger woman. From Wordnik.com. [Hearts] Reference
Rosemarie Nitribitt (Nina Hoss) is a Marilyn Monroe-like pretty girl in her 20's who sleeps her way into the highest circles of German industry and officialdom, but always as a demimondaine unacknowledged by high society. From Wordnik.com. [Two Guys, a Girl and None of Them Gay] Reference
Alison knew of this place from her early days as one of the demimondaine-but of course, unlike the rest of her sisters-in-sin, she'd had the means at her disposal to ensure she got a wedding ring before too long into her arrangement. From Wordnik.com. [Phoenix And Ashes]
She complies, deserts her lover without explaining that she is sacrificing her own happiness to his good reputation, and, lacking other resources, returns to her demimondaine trade. From Wordnik.com. [ArtsJournal: Daily Arts News] Reference
In last spring's fit of bibliotaphic acquisition (a mania that, parenthetically, continues to hold me in its thrall), I bought around five books on the world of the Parisian demimondaine: those women kept by men of society, money and the arts in during the belle époque. From Wordnik.com. [pretty dumb things] Reference
And in Winnipeg there is really only One caf? in summer and then many which aspire to be it - that's Bar Italia, the closest thing to Jazz Age-vintage Les Deux Magots this lively Fragile-X community can create from its gallery of demimondaine./laneurs, artists, and professionals. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference
Usually, after the first month or two, they shed these respectable, middle-class habiliments for what they fondly believed to be smart Paris costumes; and you could almost invariably tell a good, moral, church-going matron of the Middle West by the fact that she was got up like a demimondaine of the second class, in the naïve belief that she looked French and chic. From Wordnik.com. [Gigolo] Reference
And above all there were the demimondaine characters ” drag queens, transsexuals, prostitutes, junkies ” who were handy, vivid symbols of the transgressive themes the then-young Almodóvar, during the heady years of the post-Franco cultural explosion, was clearly eager to explore ” and to flaunt. From Wordnik.com. [Aerobics 6 p.m.] Reference
` bell-ringer's knell, 'galliaceous halitosis ` garlic breath,' pernoctative nepotation ` riotous carousing through the night, 'bromidrotic fug ` sweaty stench,' and dasypygal demimondaine. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 3] Reference
BrE débrêe or dèbrêe, AmE dəbrêe débutant male dèbyûtàn or débyûtàn débutante female dèbyûtànt or débyûtànt décolletage noun, décolleté male, décolletée female daycoletàzh, daycoletây décor dâycor dégringolade dây-gráng-go-làd degustation-a tasting of foods or wines in a series of small portions dây-gù-stá-ssión de haut en bas də-ôwàn-bà déjà vu dâyzhà-vû deluxe, de luxe də-lúxe, də-lûxe demimondaine démimon-dâne demimonde démimonde demi-sec démi-séc dénouement dây-noûmon dépôt. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
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