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• puhekieltä A woman of doubtful reputation or suspected character; an adventuress.

• 1749, (w), Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, page 569:

he had no knowledge of that character which is vulgarly called a demirep; that is to say, a woman who intrigues with every man she likes, under the name and appearance of virtue ... in short, whom everybody knows to be what nobody calls her.

• 1813, (w), in a journal article about the prince.(Chambers, R.. "'The Book of Days': A miscellany of popular antiquities. Londres: W & R Chambers, 1832." http://books.google.com.br/books?id=3hJLeLHjh-YC&pg=PA598&dq=chambers+hunt+popular.antiquities&as_brr=3&sig=ACfU3U17GpaLy3Cd-UB-RFQlGvuP-eFIsw Google Books):

(..) in short, this delightful, blissful, wise, pleasurable, honourable, virtuous, true, and immortal prince, was a violator of his word, a libertine, over head and ears in disgrace, a despiser of domestic ties, the companion of gamblers and demireps (..).

• (quote-text)|title=s:Confessions of an English Opium-Eater|Confessions of an English Opium-Eater|passage=(..) the greater part of our confessions (that is, spontaneous and extra-judicial confessions) proceed from demireps, adventurers, or swindlers (..).

• (quote-text)|title=s:The Ballad of Reading Gaol|The Ballad of Reading Gaol|passage=With the mincing step of a demirep / Some sidled up the stairs (..).

• 1932, (w), Talleyrand, Folio Society 2010, p. 65:

In this new world, ruled by charlatans and dominated by demireps, Talleyrand may have found much to shock his sense of decorum, but little to outrage his moral standards.

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