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But there was a large difference between a courtesan and a demirep.

I don't want to fall into your arms like some demirep."

Most bloody awful demirep!

"Excerpt from Memoirs of a Martian Demirep" (2007).

It made for better copy than those penny pulp stories where a dance hall demirep was likely to be confused with a long suffering charity worker.

Around, around, they waltzed and wound; Some wheeled in smirking pairs; With the mincing step of a demirep Some sidled up the stairs: And with subtle sneer, and fawning leer, Each helped us at our prayers.

She was well enough, she supposed, though she knew from the brief glimpses she'd had of the demirep, as Amy referred to the beautiful creatures she claimed served as rich men's mistresses, that her figure lacked the lush ripeness those women possessed.

"He did, And the demimondaine was the woman who came here for a position as governess."

No one takes the old demimondaine seriously.

The whole image is geared to assert her right to recognition by London society, which regarded her as a demimondaine.

Women's suffrage and the flapper movements resulted in the label demimondaine becoming obsolete.

During this time Hart worked as a cook and singer, possibly supplementing her income as a demimondaine.

The most famous real-life demimondaine was arguably Cora Pearl.

The term demimondaine referred to a woman who embodied these qualities; later it became a euphemism for a courtesan or prostitute.

Or his demimondaine?

Rock-marked, painted and repainted like the cheek of a demimondaine, the bed hogged most of the room.

The smart demimondaine, like the fictional Gigi's grandmother, would invest her wealth for the day when her beauty would fade.

This three-episode demimondaine comedy borrows truckloads of inspiration from "Pulp Fiction," but still has some flash and personality of its own.

Becky Sharp is perceived as a demimondaine before she presents in court, and then becomes one when she travels through Europe after her husband abandons her.

Ms. Hickman is more concerned with the curious, ambiguous status of the demimondaine, and with how prostitution figured in an English society that studiously ignored it.

He moves on to a career performing in demimondaine East Village nightclubs patronized, as one character puts it, by "post-crash yuppies looking for the cheap downtown thrill."

After moving to Paris, from her position at the Folies she became a noted demimondaine, and a rival of "La Belle Otero".

Berthe de Courrière (June 1852, Lille - 14 June 1916, Paris) was a French artists' model and demimondaine.

PowerHouse is presenting satiric photographs of look-alikes of President Bush and members of his cabinet consorting with floozies, clowns and other demimondaine folk.

The program was completed by Balanchine's "Vienna Waltzes," in which Peter Hansen stood out as a bemused count courting Ms. Lopez's demimondaine.

While married women might advance in the stratum by having an affair with a prince, an unmarried girl fell from grace and swiftly landed in the nether region of a demimondaine.

The General is enamoured of the much younger demimondaine Blanche, and enters with her, the Marquis and Mr Astley, an Englishman.

Glamorous demimondaine, spy for the court of Savoy, mistress of the French emperor Napoleon III, the countess was all these and more - a delirious, self-promoting fantasist.

Worn by a demimondaine, or a sexually promiscuous woman, the corset might be wicked scarlet or flamboyant blue, like the show's 1890's example of blue silk satin, trimmed with lace and embroidery.

In the first half of the show, based on a story by Arthur Schnitzler, she portrays a weary, jaded demimondaine in turn-of-the-century Vienna who disguises herself as a seamstress to find real romance.

He has a chat with a resplendent demimondaine who tells him "it wouldn't cost 100,000 francs" to sleep with her, but he insists that "with her looks she couldn't very well ask for less."

Although it does not mention the terms 'demimonde' and 'demimondaine' (they were coined later), the terms were later used by reviewers and other authors in reference to three characters in it.