Meaning of demi-monde | Babel Free

Definitions

Milieu constitué autour de femmes légères, souvent vénales ou entretenues par les hommes du monde.

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Examples

“Paris society borrows fashions from the demi-monde, and the demi-monde borrows manners from the extravagant princesses, countesses, and viscountesses. All Parie has been stirred with the Sardanapalian entertainment, which a leader of the demi-monde gave on the eve of Lent to the best male society in the Empire. The ladies were all unquestionably from young [Alexandre] Dumas' panier à quinze sous; but their manners and their toilettes were, we are told, all that could be desired.”

“This is the last⟳ straw. In your infatuation for this man—a man who is notorious for his excesses, a man your father would not have⟳ allowed to so much as mention⟳ your name⟳—you have⟳ reflected the demi-monde rather than the circles in which you have⟳ presumably grown up.”

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