demimonde

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A class of women maintained by wealthy protectors; female courtesans or prostitutes as a group.

   “To give a good and solid education to the gentle sex would tend to double the army of progress, to draw closer the domestic relations, and to annihilate that extra-conjugal society (the demi[-]monde of [Alexandre] Dumas the younger) which is now so very prosperous.”

2. isim A group having little respect or reputation.

   “the literary demimonde”

3. isim A member of such a class or group of persons.

   “I was called to see B. J., a demimonde and opium habitue, and found her suffering intensely with pain over the right upper chest, neck and arm, and numbness in the right little finger and one-half of the ring finger. […] Diagnosis—brachialgia following traumatism.”