Definition of "demimondaine" []

• A woman belonging to the demimonde. (noun)

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• "Valérie Larbin was what the chroniclers of society—or their putative sons, the social novelists—would have called a demimondaine."
• "In an effort to sanitize Paramount's portrait of a demimondaine, the studio publicity department churned out reams of flapdoodle, defining Holly as a "kook" rather than a B-girl."
• "Adapted from Colette's eponymous novel, the film follows the affair of Lea de Lonval (Michelle Pfeiffer), a retired, luscious courtesan in her fifty's, and Cheri (Rupert Friend), the exquisite, wanton son of a rival demimondaine (Kathy Bates)."