demi-rep

“Robinson's costume the suggestively loose boundaries of netting, implying flexibility rather than constancy, and the demi-rep rather than the artist.”

Framing Romantic Dress: Mary Robinson, Princess Caroline and the Sex/Text

“There's and old and hardened demi-rep, it's ringing in her ears,”

Alexander's Bridge

“Marmontel -- doing, like other second-rate talents, almost more _useful_ work than his betters -- rescues the _conte_ from the "demi-rep" condition into which it had fallen, and, owing to the multifariousness of his examples, does not entirely subjugate it even to honest purpose; while Bernardin de”

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800

“( "Perdita"), (also1781) to wrest semiotic control from her, depicting her as a demi-rep, sexually available and artfully self-posing. [”

Framing Romantic Dress: Mary Robinson, Princess Caroline and the Sex/Text

“a famous demi-rep to a notorious gang leader; with only a .25 calibre”

The Day of Days An Extravaganza