Noun : a demimonde of investigative journalists writing for the sensationalist tabloids. ,the literary demimonde. From Dictionary.com.
She was no demimonde, not to be used only for pleasure. From Wordnik.com. [red dust] Reference
His name was Simon Fleet and he was a famous homosexual of the demimonde. From Wordnik.com. [Truly, Madly, Nicky] Reference
However, the demimonde situation, I hope you understand, I really enjoyed. From Wordnik.com. [Dallas Blog, Daily News, Dallas Politics, Opinion, and Commentary FrontBurner Blog D Magazine » Blog Archive » Fearing’s at the Ritz Looks To Be a Swell Place for Hookers] Reference
There were no innocents among the demimonde of Paris or the dirty streets of Rome. From Wordnik.com. [The Seduction Of Sara]
Then there were the bucks and their ladybirds, the bright lights of the demimonde. From Wordnik.com. [A Lady of Expectations]
GRECE and de Benoist have a strange penchant for the demimonde of right extremism. From Wordnik.com. [Paris: Moses and Polytheism] Reference
Don't forget that it's set in the prohibition-era and concerned with the demimonde of the time. From Wordnik.com. [Sunday Funnies.] Reference
Europe is only adopted on the stage, and occasionally by courtesans and ladies of the demimonde. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
Because? and this is item two? the Duke of Langford has some interesting friends in the demimonde. From Wordnik.com. [Captives Of The Night]
She filled her flat at 27 rue de Fleurus with paintings, and opened the doors to the demimonde of Paris. From Wordnik.com. [They’ll Always Have Paris] Reference
Of course, we do have our own demimonde nowadays, but I don't feel that it's producing Rilkes and Mandelstams. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: TWO FROM THE TIMES.] Reference
Both began their careers depicting the demimonde and ended having fundamentally altered a long artistic tradition. From Wordnik.com. [Photo-Op: View Finder] Reference
Sinclair considered him a young man of the demimonde but decided to treat him like a reasonable human being anyway. From Wordnik.com. [Greg Mitchell: Dispatches From Incredible 1934 Campaign: Hollywood 'Attack Ads' Hit Upton Sinclair Again] Reference
How apt the Turin games' carnival-cum-circus closing ceremony brought to mind the grotesque demimonde of a Fellini film. From Wordnik.com. [Olympics Get Cold ReceptionForget The Winter Games] Reference
Playing hooky from school, Ms. Tendo entered the demimonde of truants and punks, sniffing glue, going wild and acting out. From Wordnik.com. [Aging Gangsters] Reference
Surely a man as rich as Cameron would not lack in charming companions of the demimonde, all eager to serve his every wish!. From Wordnik.com. [red dust] Reference
One Birkenstock in the officially criminal marijuana-dealing demimonde and the other in the world of civilization and law. From Wordnik.com. [Savages] Reference
Mr. Kenny, a vestige of the 1980's downtown demimonde in a Regency shirt, elucidated his nightlife philosophy over the din. From Wordnik.com. [Move Over, Kids! Original Club Mama Susanne Bartsch Has Still Got It] Reference
Internet distribution becomes a demimonde in which the rules of the rest of the society either cannot or will not be enforced. From Wordnik.com. [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference
I'm somewhere above a servant, just below a guest, and not a member of the demimonde, which I expect was what he was afraid of. From Wordnik.com. [red dust] Reference
Etienne was no snob, he was friends with the demimonde of Paris as well as the denizens of the high stakes world of horseracing. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-08-01] Reference
In all these things, she was utterly unlike the expensive members of the silk-clad demimonde whose pleasures he had once enjoyed. From Wordnik.com. [red dust] Reference
They'll get sucked into a treacherous, black-clad SoHo demimonde, where elegantly cynical dealers manipulate egotistical painters. From Wordnik.com. [Biting The Hand] Reference
The fashion-plate Schnabel sisters, who have long since outgrown being compared to the Hiltons, have dated in a certain demimonde. From Wordnik.com. [The Schnabel Family] Reference
She wondered what they made of her; too plain to be a member of the demimonde, too shabbily dressed to be a fiancee or a relative. From Wordnik.com. [red dust] Reference
The ECB resists, and all who balk will be chastised by the monied powers and their demimonde, the ratings agencies and global banks. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » The ECB’s Complacency] Reference
A lost soul, he is a late-night habitué of the Paris demimonde, an exile and an alien, a man of musings and memories, and, possibly, lies. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Salt: Summary and book reviews of The Book of Salt by Monique Truong.] Reference
He said it would be good to see if I could drum up some new business among this booming demimonde that the older partners did not understand. From Wordnik.com. [EVENING’S EMPIRE] Reference
This marks the third HBO series to plunge into the demimonde of Brooklyn hipsters. From Wordnik.com. [LJWorld.com stories: News] Reference
French -- that she had been spending a Sunday afternoon in a gathering of the "demimonde.". From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 4 (1886-1900)] Reference
Without a word of dialogue the demimonde is established-this is not Don Draper's Manhattan. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference
By the time Esposito himself arrived, well after midnight, most of the demimonde and their attendants had left. From Wordnik.com. [artforum.com] Reference
But the bohemians of Larson's musical inhabit not Puccini's 19th century Paris, but the late 20th century demimonde of New York's East Village. From Wordnik.com. [New Hampshire Public Radio] Reference
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