demimonde

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While the Bagger knows that the Italian film about the criminally demimonde has been criminally excluded from this year's final five for best foreign-language movie, he can't get the movie out of his mind.

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  1. noun A class of women kept by wealthy lovers or protectors.
  2. noun Women prostitutes considered as a group.
  3. noun A group whose respectability is dubious or whose success is marginal: the literary demimonde of ghost writers, hacks, and publicists. Also called demiworld.

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  • They were both notorious members of the demimonde, women who peddled flesh only to those wealthy enough to afford the most expensive and exotic of pleasures. —  ONE NIGHT OF SCANDAL
  • From the lobby a discreet passageway connected to the building next-door—the Salle d'Orleans—where a ball was going on for the ladies of the free colored demimonde, the plaçees and their daughters. —  EQMM, November 2006
  • Delaunay had moved at whim for years in and out of the royal court and the demimonde, but it was Alcuin who chose to follow, pledging himself to the service of Naamah to discharge a debt that could never be paid. —  Carey, Jaqueline - Kushiel's Dart orig
  • Bohemias are escalators of social mobility, merging at one end with the demimonde and deviant, and at the other end with the bourgeoisie customer and political class. —  newmatilda.com - Comments
  • This was the dealer demimonde that turned Maimi from a sleepy town for retirees into the hip party destination for models, gigolos and anybody with narco-dollars and a ruthless violent streak. —  GreenCine Daily
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  1. French demi-monde : demi-, demi- + monde, world (from Latin mundus).
 

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