demimondaines

There were courtesans before it came; there will be demimondaines ages after its departure.

The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1. 1898

Popular jockeys, successful surgeons, managers of sports 'clubs, tenors, demimondaines, farce-writers and champion athletes could, even to-day, if they were class-conscious and joined together to exploit their opportunities, demand any income they liked.

The New Society Walther Rathenau 1894

Among the downtown demimondaines and creative misfits who turned up to the dinner hosted for her by Tim Burton at Forty Four at Royalton on Saturday night were Patricia Field, Leee Black Childers, Kate Pierson of the B-52s, Agyness Deyn

NYT > Home Page By HORACIO SILVA 2010

Soho Rep premiered in 1981 and is reviving now [1996], concerns a far-flung collection of demimondaines who converge at an oculists 'convention in Mexico City.

BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content 2010

Also in the Charles McGrath in the New York Times and, talking to Johnson for Stephen Holden in the New York Times: "There is something cute, if not outright ludicrous, in the spectacle of dewy young actors striking the poses of hard-boiled demimondaines and desperadoes and failing utterly to make them come alive."

GreenCine Daily 2009

The parade of guttersnipes, demimondaines, the working class, the middle genteels and the Gold Coast privelegees plays well off of Ballinger, because Lee Marvin successfully embodies the show's moral spine.

PopMatters 2009

Also in the Charles McGrath in the New York Times and, talking to Johnson for Stephen Holden in the New York Times: "There is something cute, if not outright ludicrous, in the spectacle of dewy young actors striking the poses of hard-boiled demimondaines and desperadoes and failing utterly to make them come alive."

GreenCine Daily 2009

All the piss and drizzle of semi-educated twats and dizzy deranged demimondaines with kiwi-scented bath soaps! ...

Excerpt from The Vicious Circulation of Dr Catastrope 2010

The other women in Balsan’s circle — actresses, demimondaines — greatly admired Coco’s underplayed personal style, which in-cluded masculine tweeds, crisp white blouses, and relatively unadorned hats at a time when most women were virtually entombed in piles of feathers and lace.

The King Is Dead 2007

The other women in Balsan’s circle — actresses, demimondaines — greatly admired Coco’s underplayed personal style, which in-cluded masculine tweeds, crisp white blouses, and relatively unadorned hats at a time when most women were virtually entombed in piles of feathers and lace.

The King Is Dead 2007