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demimondaine

n. A sexually promiscuous woman (of the ''demimonde'')

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demimondaine

n. a woman whose sexual promiscuity places her outside respectable society

Usage examples of "demimondaine".

And the demimondaine was the woman who came here for a position as governess.

This good, omniscient understanding told him also that he was again confronting a mystery whose proper interpretation was important for his life, that this slut or demimondaine, this scent of elegance, seduction, and sex, was by no means repugnant and insulting to him.

We have recently converted a nonagenarian female, who came here close to death, to a lithesome demimondaine of 23, but that took careful Tyrin attention as well as the pink.

He had kept a succession of demimondaine ladies, which was not to be held against him.

An enterprising demimondaine began taking bets in the hallway from the men and girls who had flooded the stairs to view the commotion.

Worst of all, he was condemning himself to a lifetime of misery with a demimondaine for a wife.

Already there were a dozen or so demimondaines lying in a circle passing a glimmerbug from hand to hand.

There was also the inevitable water-fluid population of demimondaines, barkeeps, scullery maids, back-alley bones-rollers, charm-vendors, cutpurses, rogues, bards, alley-bashers, and joy-girls and -boys, few of whom could be found abroad at this hour.

Johanna Schell was not like the demimondaines he'd tended to run into during the past several years, nor did she bear any resemblance to the proper and well-bred aristocrats of England.