demimonde

demimonde englannista suomeksi

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0. Substantiivi

demimonde englanniksi

1. A class of women maintained by wealthy protectors; female courtesans or prostitutes as a group.

2. (quote-journal); London: Low|Sampson Low, Son & Co.|month=May|year=1857|volume=IX|issue=LIII|page=560|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=APJIAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA560|column=1|oclc=950904397|passage=A most remarkable instance of this was afforded in the play of Dame aux Camélias|Camille by the performance of the supper-scene. The stage in this scene is supposed to represent a supper-room, enlivened by the presence of a party of young Parisians, more gay, indeed, than respectable, but still ''Parisians'', and Parisians of the ''demimonde'', which, of the two halves that go to make up the whole of the ''monde'', preserves the hemisphere of manners while it throws away the hemisphere of decorum.

3. (quote-journal) Paris, 1864.|journal=The Westminster Review|edition=American|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=Published by Leonard Scott & Co.,(nb...)|month=July|year=1864|volume=LXXXII|issue=CLXI|page=74|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=VEegAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA74|column=1|oclc=507147293|passage=To give a good and solid education to the gentle sex would tend to double the army of progress, to draw closer the domestic relations, and to annihilate that extra-conjugal society (the ''demi''-''monde'' of Dumas fils|Alexandre Dumas the younger) which is now so very prosperous.

4. (quote-book)|location=Philadelphia, Pa.|publisher=J. B. Lippincott & Co.; London: H. Allen & Co.|William Houghton Allen & Co.,(nb...)|year=1867|volume=II|page=14|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=fp4XAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA14|oclc=16624494|passage=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 Dumas fils|young Alexandre Dumas' ''panier à quinze sous''; but their manners and their toilettes were, we are told, all that could be desired.

5. (quote-book)|edition=6th revised and augmented|location=Leipzig|publisher=Karl Baedeker; London: Dulau and Co.,(nb...)|year=1878|section=section 17 (Concerts and Balls)|page=57|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.272420/page/n97|oclc=456848598|passage=''Skating Rinks'' are chiefly patronised by members of the demi-monde.

6. (quote-book)|year=1897|page=56|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=utpAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA57|oclc=458913089|passage=Racing is confined almost exclusively to the upper and middle classes in Hungary, though it is always attended by numbers of the ''demi''-''monde''.

7. (RQ:Fitzgerald Flappers)

8. (quote-book)

9. A group having little respect or reputation.

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10. (quote-journal)

11. (quote-book) In fact, the young protagonists of these works hardly fit the description of the regime's "new men," and the cosmopolitan demimondes they frequent had been targeted by fascist zealots for rehabilitation.

12. A member of such a class or group of persons.

13. (quote-journal)|month=June|year=1869|volume=XVI|issue=VI|page=119|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=cpwBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA119|oclc=991071819|passage=Those who seek pleasure in a round of dances and fashionable frolic, where the german and the horse-race, the card-table and the drive, are the order of the day, will gather to the sea side and the spa; they will seek Newport, the maelstrom of money; or Long Branch with its broiling sun and its retinue of demimondes and stuck-up-ities; (..)

14. (quote-journal) Diagnosis—brachialgia following traumatism.