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demimondaine
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Or: demi-mondaine :1. A woman belonging to the demimonde, a class of women of questionable respectability who grant sexual favors to men of wealth, power, and influence. See also: gold-digger.
2. A semi-professional prostitute; defined by Henry Fielding in Tom Jones (1749) as a woman: ' whom everybody knows to be what nobody calls her '. See prostitute for synonyms.
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