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demimonde
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Or: demi-monde :1. A class of women (known as demimondaine) of doubtful reputation and sexual virtue who haunted the twilight zone of Parisian cafés and music-halls during Victorian times (1880-1900) providing companionship and excitement for business men and men of society without engaging in prostitution.
2. A more respectable word for women prostitutes collectively.
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